Immigration Research
Scholars & writers who do good work on immigration and borders.
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@nathanpgoodman.bsky.social
@sarahbruhn.bsky.social
Studying immigration, families & education. Postdoc @ Penn. Writing two books. Raising three kiddos. sarahbruhn.com
@bordercrim.bsky.social
Border Criminologies draws together researchers working in #criminology on #bordercontrol. Retweets/links to media or other websites do not imply endorsements. https://linktr.ee/bordercrim
@helenurpiwagnercoello.org
First Gen 🇵🇪 advocating for students in Miami FL, focused on supporting Dreamers 🦋 SEAS Lab and UNIDOS Center at FIU. @ICQCM and NPA IMPACT fellow | Storytelling in HigherEd | Immigration Studies | SciCom
@ienesatac.bsky.social
PhD student in Sociology and Social Data Analytics at Penn State | Prev. University of Mannheim & Bogazici University ienesatac.com
@akoustov.bsky.social
Author of "In Our Interest: How Democracies Can Make Immigration Popular" (http://tinyurl.com/4rwpr6dc). Professor at UNC Charlotte. https://alexanderkustov.org/
@michellelkahn.bsky.social
Historian of far-right extremism, writing a book about German & American neo-Nazis | Also: migration, racism, & sexuality in Europe/global | Author of Foreign in Two Homelands (2024) | University of Richmond | Ask me about fascism & my 3 cats
@abigailandrews.bsky.social
Sociologist @USPUCSD. Study gender, migration, state violence, agency. Direct http://mmfrp.org. Books: Undocumented Politics(2018) & Banished Men(2023). #AcademicMama
@kenyonz.bsky.social
Historian of 19th-20th century migration, labor, and radicalism. Author of Immigrants against the State: Yiddish and Italian Anarchism in America. kenyonzimmer.com
@migrationcollab.bsky.social
MiSC is a community of scholars fighting to decriminalize migration and open wider pathways to legal immigration in the United States. Op Eds + Public History https://sites.google.com/lclark.edu/misc
@colmigproject.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary project funded by @britishacademy.bsky.social investigating how colonialism has shaped migration governance around the world. Team includes @mcslaven.bsky.social, @evansmithhist.bsky.social, and others who aren't here yet
@unlawfulentries.bsky.social
Kurz Chair in Constitutional Rights, CUNY Brooklyn College. Political scientist specializing in US constitutional law and development, US migration(s) and citizenship law and policy history. Often mistaken for a historian. Home cook, wine drinker, foodie.
@plvezina.bsky.social
Economist at King's College London. Trade, development, migration, political madness, grand corruption. pierrelouisvezina@weebly.com
@jamilahammami.bsky.social
Organizer, writer, scholar, researcher, resistance archivist, & strategist defending 🇵🇸 dissent | Wanderer, pit bull rescuer, guerrilla gardener, & lover of horror, sports, & post-punk | (they/them) #FreePalestine jamilahammami.com linktr.ee/jamilahammami
@guygrossman.bsky.social
Political science professor at UPenn, studying migration and forced displacement, human trafficking, and poor governance. Co-director of the Penn Development Research Initiative (PDRI-DevLab). Website: https://guygrossman.com
@labdelaaty.bsky.social
Assoc Prof of PoliSci • IR, Refugees, Human rights • labdelaa.expressions.syr.edu • she/her • Views own, etc.
@hidehirota.bsky.social
Historian of US immigration. Teaches at UC Berkeley. Vice President of @iehs.bsky.social. Author of Expelling the Poor (Oxford). Writing books on foreign contract labor law and on transpacific Japanese migration.
@charlesjkenny.bsky.social
Fellow at the Center for Global Development, author of Getting Better and The Plague Cycle. (CGD doesn't have institutional positions, so don't blame it for mine).
@drernestocast.bsky.social
Director,@theimmigrationlab.bsky.social; Center for Latin American & Latino Studies; and Full Professor, Sociology, American University, DC. Immigration and the politics of the possible. Author of multiple books & articles.
@maxgranger.info
writer / translator • words at The Intercept, El País, The Baffler, Foreign Policy, etc • translating Central American journalism at El Faro • maxgranger.info
@silkys13.bsky.social
executive director, Detention Watch Network, author Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition (Haymarket Books, 2024), from Texas, views my own book info/events: https://www.detentionwatchnetwork.org/unbuild-walls
@bruzzone.bsky.social
Immigration policy person, especially unaccompanied kids, child labor, LGBTQ+ migration, and family separation; also the least useful kind of doctor
@adamisacson.com
He/Him. I work on security, borders, and migration at the Washington Office on Latin America (my views, not necessarily theirs). I'm also at wola.org, adamisacson.com, borderoversight.org, Mastodon elefanti.co/@adam
@adamjst.bsky.social
I work with data. I post about migration, education, and sports. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, Americas, Earth Arsenal + Nuggets + Avs + Rockies https://adamjsawyer.com/about he/him
@yaelschacher.bsky.social
Immigration historian and Director for Americas and Europe at Refugees International. Views my own.
@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Senior Fellow at the American Immigration Council. Commenting generally on immigration law and policy. Retweets =/= endorsements, views are my own.
@daralind.bsky.social
Former journalist, currently employed at @immcouncil.org (all posts here VERY MUCH my own), forever immigration explainer. Committed to the bit. Signal: daralind.18
@mikecoonomics.bsky.social
Migration Economist. Associate Professor at UTampa. Editorial Board member at Eastern Economic Journal. Contributor to econeveryday.com. www.michael-coon.com. Usual disclaimers apply.
@mzavodny.bsky.social
Economics professor at Univ of North Florida, immigration & labor economics
@reecejones.bsky.social
Professor of political geography at the University of Hawai'i; editor-in-chief of Geopolitics; author of Violent Borders, White Borders, Border Walls, and Nobody is Protected
@chloeneast.bsky.social
Associate Professor in Economics at University of Colorado. I study immigration policy, the safety net, and inequality Affiliated with Hamilton Project at Brookings, NBER, IRP, IZA & United Campus Workers Union https://www.chloeneast.com Texas forever
@austinkocher.com
I study immigration enforcement. Assistant Professor at Syracuse University and Research Fellow at the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies at American University. https://linktr.ee/austinkocher
@davidjbier.bsky.social
Cato Institute, Director of Immigration Studies, BEER, not buyer. Cato, not CATO
@kangborderlaw.bsky.social
Nau Associate Professor of the History and Principles of Democracy Author of The INS on the Line (Oxford, 2017) Co-editor of Hidden Histories of Unauthorized Migrations from Europe to the United States (UIP, 2025) Washington, D.C. & Charlottesville, VA
@nsharma101.bsky.social
There (really) is no place like home. Home Rule (2020, Duke U. Press) Home Economics (2006, U of Toronto Press) Professor, Sociology, Univ. of Hawaii at Manoa #NoBorders nanditasharma.net
@mclem.org
Professor of economics at George Mason University, fellow at the Peterson Institute of International Economics, IZA, CReAM/UCL, CGD. Associate Editor JEP. USAID 2021–2024. Personal views exclusively. Web: http://mclem.org ORCID: 0000-0003-1354-0965
@nathanpgoodman.bsky.social
Economist who studies institutions, political economy, polycentricity, defense & peace economics, and border militarization. https://www.nathanpgoodman.com/ https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=1Ue5NBMAAAAJ&hl=en