EXCITING NEWS! We’re partnering with SCMR to edit a special issue featuring selected papers from our upcoming conference! Submit your abstract for "Im/migrant Well-Being: A Nexus for Research & Policy 2025" Conference by Sept. 15, 2024! Learn more ➡️ iwbcollab.org/2025conference

Eddie Canales helped a lot of people during his life. RIP nytimes.com/2024/08/10/us/…

🌵A calm Sonoran Desert morning. Did I mention we’re hiring? 😁 ASA Sociology UA Sociology arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/careers…

Since the creation of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in 2003, the federal government has spent an estimated *$409 Billion* on the agencies that carry out immigration enforcement. Check out this American Immigration Council excellent report 👇🏼 americanimmigrationcouncil.org/sites/default/…

Last call! We start reviewing apps 9/1. The call is relatively open; however, applicants should be prepared to teach graduate stats beyond OLS 👇👇👇

No! Why? I understand there are issue with the original (e.g., where are the Chicano actors?), but that movie and Stand and Deliver have a special place in my heart. First time as a kid that I saw people with similar life experiences as my own on TV latimes.com/delos/story/20…

Good news. And it’s consistent with our land-grant mission

I've run ~30+ large-scale surveys over the last decade, but still finding Stefanie Stantcheva's Annual Reviews "How to Run Surveys" super helpful! 80+ pgs of Appendix examples are 🙌🏾~ social desirability, vignettes, info treatments? She's got you covered! annualreviews.org/content/journa…

Sasabe fire fighters sawed through the border wall-- against Border Patrol orders--to rescue a severely injured man who fell from the wall. Our depraved border policies so often collide with the neighborly hope that's the true culture of the borderlands.azluminaria.org/2024/08/30/sma…

Discussing the "Rule of Law" and how it might relate to human development in my transnational crime class next week (also covering several theories of underdevelopment, including Dependency/World Systems, Modernization, and Marxism). The relationship between the two is striking.

Updates on asylum processing by Strauss Center, Stephanie Leutert, and Caitlyn Yates 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

We are honored to introduce our 2024 Women of Impact cohort of impressive and forward-thinking leaders representing 15 units across the University of Arizona. Each individual makes an impact that resonates across campus and beyond. Please join us in congratulating these deserving

Claims about rising US crime are false or outdated: "At the national level and in most cities, crime—especially violent crime—will continue its multi-year decline by the end of 2024 and will likely be at a low not seen in over 50 years." -Alex Piquero thehill.com/opinion/immigr…

Important paper: refugee resettlements have *no effect* on crime. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Back in DC for a bit. First time since the pandemic. It feels the same but different. Looking forward to being part of this mini course.

Words matter a lot. Can we agree that these words "immigrant crime" is #hatespeech? Normalizing its use hurts people, renews debunked stereotypes, prejudices attitudes, influences policy (& voting), and invites violence. Let's please not use these words so we can #stophatespeech

1/3 New Bureau of Justice Statistics victimization report shows a small decline in violent victimization from 2022-2023. Based on the NCVS survey, about 1.36% of US residents age 12 and older experienced a violent victimization, down from 1.51% in 2022, 1.33% in 2019, and 4.34% in 1993).