Our article on "Refugee Systems" in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Migration Studies is now online at

doi.org/10.1093/9780...

Detention Reports has been updated to include a national map of all active ICE detention facilities that link to individual facility reports. Learn about this new feature and other new features at my latest post: austinkocher.substack.com/p/the-best-s...

This is such an important book to understand how the early months of refugee resettlement in the US unfold in practice.

Congratulations, @molly-fee.bsky.social!

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#refugee

Mapping the Global North bias in forced migration studies: three decades of publication and citation trends Abstract. Academic literature on forced displacement has been criticized for disproportionately focusing on the Global North, despite the significant conce

"Mapping the Global North bias in forced migration studies: three decades of publication and citation trends." Open access at academic.oup.com/jrs/advance-...

looking forward to taking part in this online panel Thursday, 20 November

Authors on Authors: Kevin Kenny & Maddalena Marinari Kevin Kenny and Maddalena Marinari, Rituals of Migration: Irish and Italians on the Move (New York University Press, 2025). In Rituals of Migration, editors Kevin Kenny and Maddalena Marinari—with …

New blog post on the IEHS blog, Not From Here: Authors on Authors: Kevin Kenny & Maddalena Marinari with Hardeep Dhillon

@kevinkenny.bsky.social @irpinaingiro.bsky.social

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done!

my review recommending Migration Governance in North America: Policy, Politics, and Community, edited by Kiran Banerjee & Craig Damian Smith

doi.org/10.1017/S153...

I'm delighted to serve on "The Outstanding Article Award in International History and Politics" committee @apsa.bsky.social Deadline for nominations is January 31, 2026. Details of the nomination and a list of previous winners can be found at the APSA-IHaP website connect.apsanet.org/s34/nominati...

paid Research & Advocacy Fellow,
Migration & Human Rights Program,
Cornell Law School. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/309...

2025 Call for Special Issue Proposals Deadline: 15 December 2025 Migration Studies is now accepting Special Issue proposals. The journal typically publishes one call for special issues pe

call for special issues @migrationjrnl.bsky.social academic.oup.com/migration/pa...

mi capítulo “La migración mexicana y la ley” está disponible en acceso abierto en la antología "Construyendo el gran México.
La emigración mexicana a Estados Unidos" librosdigitales.colsan.edu.mx/detalles.php...

hats off to @usnatarchives.bsky.social
for displaying pre-WW2 refugee documents - a refugee from Soviet Armenia seeking to stay in USA in 1934 bc he was a political or religious refugee and would be stateless if deported. Act of June 8, 1934 is often forgotten in #RefugeeHistory

It was a real coup to get my hands on a copy of Paolo Boccagni's new book. This ethnography of the absurd confronts the existential question of what it means to live in limbo while waiting for asylum.

Available open access from @ucpress.bsky.social

www.ucpress.edu/books/undoin...

Congratulations to @hekwon.bsky.social for her new publication, "Privileged pariahs: agency of Korean expatriate mothers in the UAE"

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Title Pathways to External Citizenship: The Global Extension of Dual Citizenship and Voting From Abroad Authors Sebastian Umpierrez de Reguero and Maarten Vink Description The extension of dual citizenship and external voting rights over the past decades has been widely observed. Both trends contribute to the phenomenon of external citizenship, where citizens residing abroad hold rights to political participation irrespective of other transnational ties. Yet these trends have been studied in a disconnected manner. This is remarkable as the exercise of external voting requires nationals abroad to keep a legal link with the home country, while dual citizenship acceptance is high on the agenda of politically mobilized emigrant communities. In this paper, we make two original contributions. First, applying sequence analysis to a dataset covering 194 countries over 61 years (N=10,310), we identify five dominant pathways in extending rights to dual citizenship and external voting: 1) norm setters, 2) dual citizenship only, 3) external voting only, 4) latecomers, and 5) norm resisters. Second, we analyze the correlates of these pathways with a focus on the predominant political regime type. Democratic regimes are not more prone to be norm setters that adopt both forms of rights extension but are less likely to be norm resisters that do not adopt either. Partial norm extenders and latecomers are not significantly associated with a particular regime experience.

I'm excited to share pre-print of a ✨ new paper with the great @sumpierrez.bsky.social!

We study ’pathways of external citizenship’ across 194 countries 🌎 since 1960. We do so by building a sequence analysis of the timing and extent of dual citizenship acceptance and external voting rights.

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The Sordid History of Offshoring Migrants Trump is only the latest to embrace a costly and immoral tactic.

My piece in Foreign Affairs is out on the problems of third country and offshore detention www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

So sorry to learn of the passing of Richard Alba. His work will be passed on through our teaching and research for years to come.

Hi, I got a copy from the Archdiocese archives in Guadalajara in 2003 or 2004. I searched and don't have an electronic copy. I would have to dig into a warehouse to see if there is a paper copy in my archives

Remote biopower: Constructing the system of immigrant health controls Abstract. The selection of migrants based on judgments about their health was a fundamental driver of state migration controls. The USA was a global leader

Read how the U.S. systematically externalized its borders using health controls beginning in the 1800s, laying the groundwork for controls that were repurposed during the Covid-19 and Title 42 era to keep out asylum seekers.

Open access in Migration Studies.

doi.org/10.1093/migr...

This incredible resource on Canadian immigration policy is out. Hats off to the dream team of authors, including the late Jeff Reitz. A capstone achievement to an illustrious career. utppublishing.com/doi/10.3138/...

Devastated to learn of the passing of Jeff Reitz. He was such a model of scholarship and decency.

www.sociology.utoronto.ca/news/memoria...

munkschool.utoronto.ca/gml/news/mem...

A fresh way of thinking in a systems framework

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Welcome, Lucy. You might check out several Starter Packs of migration/ refugee researchers. You are in this pack

Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work.
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Thanks; fixed with new post

My review of “Framing Refugees: How the Admission of Refugees is Debated in Six Countries across the World” by Daniel Drewski and Jürgen Gerhards

Updated link to the review:
academic.oup.com/sf/article/1...

Link to the book:
tinyurl.com/3mw3kzxp

We need more comparative work like this.