Recent Publications

Sanctuary for None: Conservation, Migration, and Border Violence in the Sonoran Desert

The Sonoran Desert has played multiple roles, from a space to test nuclear weapons to conservation land to a hostile land weaponized by the U.S. government to deter migration, sometimes simultaenously. A. Naomi Paik argues that the U.S. government links the status of the Sonoran Desert as a sanctuary for nature and immigration as destructive to this nature in order to deny sanctuary to migrants. 

Historical Latino rebellions against systemic injustice, paralleling Black communities' struggles, offer a vital, often overlooked context for understanding current Latino-led protests against ICE.

Separating families? That’s just business as usual for the U.S.

From slavery to Japanese internment camps, the government has a long-standing policy of breaking up the family unit

Minian says earlier mass deportation programs in the 1930s and '50s led to widespread abuse, tearing many families apart through violent means that also resulted in the expulsion of many U.S. citizens. “These deportations that Trump is claiming that he will do will have mass implications to our civil rights, and of course to the people who are being deported themselves.”