Wow wow wow SO excited to see this piece published today. Many thanks are owed: Carl Bon Tempo Rebecca Hamlin for their incredible research on this topic, of which I have BARELY begun to scratch the surface: thank you for taking the time to chat with me! 1/

Lovely piece by Lauren DeLaunay Miller for New Lines Magazine talking about the concept of a refugee. Was fun being interviewed for this! newlinesmag.com/essays/how-def…

Some #StateoftheUnion watchers were surprised to hear President Biden use the word “illegal” to describe an unauthorized immigrant accused of murder

Rebecca Hamlin has detailed the battle over words in our Migration Information Source magazine: migrationpolicy.org/article/termin…

Come work at University of Massachusetts Legal Studies! nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…

I’m beginning to realize even pretty high-info news consumers don’t know Congress is currently in the midst of negotiating a radically hawkish bill that’d be the biggest change to immigration law since 1996.

If you follow me you know this but maybe your friends don’t? Tell em!

Everyone who visits the occupied territories comes away changed. This from TNC is must watch.

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Please tell me someone is writing their Gender and Sexuality Studies dissertation about #SellingSunset because I want to read it!

So very relieved that #SCOTUS upheld #ICWA and protected Tribal sovereignty and vulnerable children today. I was hopeful about the #Haaland decision but this Court is rogue so I’m glad to see it in print. It would have been a disaster if it had gone the other way.

Attending the Law and Society conference in San Juan this week? Please join us for this research session on Legal Violence, Precarity, and Migrant Youth.

Presenters include: Laila L. Hlass Rachel Leya Davidson Chiara Galli Valeria Gomez Rebecca Hamlin

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ChatGPT is clearly a game changer. I’ll be reflecting this summer on how to adapt to it, since teaching writing is a major aspect of my job as a Legal Studies prof. Giving undergrads a take home essay and saying don’t use ChatGPT is a big marshmallow test that many can’t pass.

I really appreciate this thoughtful review by Silvester in Ethnic and Racial Studies

My Law and Colonial Legacies class went better than I could have hoped! The final presentations are SO good, and we even built a playlist to accompany the syllabus for next time around! 🥳 open.spotify.com/playlist/53kJD…

BREAKING — U.S. Judge Emmet Sullivan voids the Title 42 order that has allowed U.S. border officials to quickly expel migrants, finding it 'arbitrary and capricious in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act'

“Refugees”? “Migrants”? “Illegal”? “Unauthorized”?

Terminology can be confusing – especially when it’s constantly shifting

Earlier this year, Rebecca Hamlin traced some of the key debates about how we refer to people on the move
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This was TSA response to what happened to me today. Apparently they can decide with zero evidence that you might have a tampon bomb and reach into your underwear and front hand touch your genitals, all in the name of safety.

Just had to file a complaint about Denver Airport TSA after my pat down included reaching inside my underwear and rubbing my genitals through my jeans. When I complained in the moment I was told “the people who blew up planes ruined it for everyone.” WTF?