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Imigration policy and enforcement practices in the United States now extend beyond the border to the country's interior, impacting the private lives of millions of undocumented and mixed-status families in new ways. Sanctuary Making traces this shift, showing how as enforcement has expanded and deepened, new "hot spots" have appeared across nontraditional sites such as neighborhoods, roads, worksites, hospitals, grocery stores, and homes. Undercurrents of fear, anxiety, and loss permeate the everyday lives of the families...

My book project, Peril and Promise: Catalyzing Political Action Among Latinxs, is centered on citizen activism and revisiting the role of threat as a catalyst for political participation. Focusing specifically on the case of Latinx communities in the U.S., anti-immigrant threats have often been depicted as a necessary and sufficient ingredient for piques in political participation for Latinx communities—communities with strong ties to immigrant community members. I focus on how this threat hypothesis overlooks the more nuanced...

From 1921 to 1944, approximately one million ethnic Mexicans living in the United States were removed across the border to Mexico. What officials called "repatriation" was in fact banishment: 60 percent of those expelled were US citizens, mainly working-class women and children whose husbands and fathers were Mexican immigrants. Drawing on transnational archival sources, oral histories, and private collections, Banished Citizens illuminates the lasting effects of coerced mass removal on three generations of ethnic Mexicans....