Austin Kocher, PhD
@ackocher
I study the immigration enforcement system. Geographer. Prof. in @NewhouseSU at @SyracuseU & Fellow at @Immigration_Lab/@AU_CLALS. Editor at @LawandSpace.
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A few hundred articles later, the final of my three reports (really, reviews) on 'geography and ethics' is out. A pleasure to try and read across different fields of geography; inevitably too much missed owing to my own limitations and much yet to learn: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/03…
The Newhouse School has always been a powerhouse journalism school. But you may not know about its tremendous growth of incredible interdisciplinary research projects from faculty and students. Read about it in the last edition of Newhouse Impact below. Syracuse University Syracuse University News
Texas Attorney General Paxton Continues Fight Against NGOs That Serve Migrants - Immigration Impact American Immigration Council immigrationimpact.com/2024/08/21/tex…
MPI releases a new report with current data on legal pathways for Mexican and Central Americans. Thanks to authors Ariel Ruiz Soto and Andrew Selee for their work! MigrationPolicy Inst migrationpolicy.org/research/us-le…
Dara Lind's cogent new essay is a must-read synthesis of Project 2025's plan to use a second Trump administration to attack legal immigration, strip protections from victims of crime, and further weaponize the immigration system. Dara Lind Read it here: immigrationimpact.com/2024/08/23/wha…
"Immigration Realities" is the reality check everyone should read right now. Castañeda & Cione cracked the code on how to connect the latest research on immigration with a public that is worried about immigration but doesn’t know whom to trust for honest information Austin Kocher, PhD 1/2
When the Oxford children's dictionary discarded dozens of nature-words—"dandelion," "fern," "starling"—as irrelevant to children's imagination and replaced them with words like "broadband" and "cut-and-paste," this inspired act of resistance was born: themarginalian.org/2019/06/17/the…
Relevant Research conducted a replication study of "Endless Nightmare", a report on solitary confinement in immigrant detention, by Physicians for Human Rights Harvard Law School Harvard Medical School. The authors of the report thankfully made the data publicly available. See our study here: github.com/RelevantResear….
Today marks my last day at TRAC Reports. I have learned so much in the past 5 yrs of fast-paced data-driven immigration research. Much of what I learned came from you: reporters, fellow researchers, experts, and the keenly interested. Thank you! 🙏+ Stay tuned! Much more to come.