Tag: Immigrant
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Im/migrant Well-Being Scholar Collaborative Welcomes New Scholar, Dr. Estefanía Castañeda Pérez
WASHINGTON, DC – The Im/migrant Well-Being Scholar Collaborative (“the Collaborative”) proudly announces a new scholar affiliate, Dr. Estefanía Castañeda Pérez. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Southern California. She is also a Women PeaceMaker Fellow at the Kroc School at the University of Read more
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Im/migrant Well-Being Scholar Collaborative Welcomes New Scholar, Dr. Deirdre Conlon
Washington, DC – The Im/migrant Well-Being Scholar Collaborative (“the Collaborative”) proudly announces a new scholar affiliate, Dr. Deirdre Conlon. She is an associate professor of Geography at The University of Leeds in Leeds, England, with research expertise in critical migration and border studies, the U.S. immigration detention system, immigration enforcement, carceral geographies, and borders and Read more
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Im/migrant Well-Being Scholar Collaborative Welcomes New Scholar, Dr. Nancy Hiemstra
WASHINGTON, DC – The Im/migrant Well-Being Scholar Collaborative (“the Collaborative”) proudly announces a new scholar affiliate, Dr. Nancy Hiemstra. She is an associate professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook University on Long Island, New York, with interests in global migration, immigration enforcement practices, detention and deportation, gender and race, and Latin Read more
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Detention at Any Cost: Profit and Harm in U.S. Immigration Enforcement
By Dr. Nancy Hiemstra and Dr. Deirdre Conlon in Collaboration with the Im/migrant Well-Being Scholar Collaborative March 2026 INTRODUCTION The United States operates the largest immigration detention system in the world. What began as a system holding roughly 5,000 people per day in the early 1990s expanded to more than 35,000 by 2024. In 2025, Read more
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Stories of the Week: February 20 – February 27
As we conclude this week, the Collaborative is back with another Stories of the Week recap. From GEO Group losing a Supreme Court appeal over allegations of $1 a day wage for people detained in immigration detention in Colorado to a Boston federal judge finding the Trump administration’s deportations to third-world countries instead of their Read more
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Stories of the Week: February 13 – February 20
As we conclude this week, the Collaborative is back with another Stories of the Week recap. From a looming healthcare crisis to concerns about new European Union deportation policies, here are the top stories impacting im/migrant well-being this week. – Sophia Benavente TOP STORY OF THE WEEK A new memo from the Department of Homeland Read more