Migration Scholar Collaborative

MiSC vehemently rejects the war on immigrants and peaceful protestors in Los Angeles. What we're witnessing is worsening anti-immigrant policies, with intensified enforcement. Read MiSC's full statement below: sites.google.com/lclark.edu/misc

✍️ Corinealdi shows these aren't coincidences. Racism, capitalism, militarization, and anti-immigration policy feed on silence about what came before. To document denationalization is to lift the veil. Read her full article here 👇 thefunambulist.net/magazine/follo…

But the past isn't past. Panama is now paid millions by the US to deport migrants crossing the Darién Gap, the Dominican Republic rendered thousands of Haitian descendants stateless in 2013, and the US recently issued an executive order targeting birthright citizenship.

Between 1941 and 1946, over 50,000 Panamanians —most of them Black— were stripped of their birthright citizenship. It was the first constitutionally sanctioned denationalization in the Americas. Yet, almost no one talks about it. 🧵👇 thefunambulist.net/magazine/follo…

NEW: For the first time, ProPublica has been able to quantify how many U.S. citizen children have been directly affected by Trump’s immigration crackdown: more than 11,000 kids had a parent detained — and that’s an undercount. 1/ 🧵 propublica.org/article/trump-…

ICE pays bounties to local cops for arresting immigrants for civil infractions and then sending them to ICE, which helps fill the ICE arrest quotas. What an insane set of incentives

🚨 Since July 2025, federal agents have shot 16 people. No criminal charges. Limited public information. Cases quietly fading from the news. Rather than a coincidence, these events reflect a deep-set pattern. 🧵👇 counterpunch.org/2026/02/13/the…

@tanyaboza calls on cities to demand footage release, agent identification & written transparency agreements for joint federal operations. We know what federal impunity looks like. This piece makes sure we can't pretend otherwise. 🔗Read it in full ⤵️ counterpunch.org/2026/02/13/the…

This is the kind of work MiSC exists to support. It connects rigorous scholarship to the most pressing social justice questions. @tanyaboza has spent years documenting how immigration enforcement harms communities, & this piece shows why that work is increasingly critical.

The US has been signing "Asylum Cooperative Agreements" (ACAs), sending asylum seekers to third countries instead of processing their claims at home. A new bulletin from the Lewis & Clark Migration & Asylum Lab breaks down what this means. 🧵👇 sites.google.com/lclark.edu/mig…

Their findings are clear: none of the countries currently receiving US deportees under ACAs can guarantee safety or protection. Read the full bulletin from the @lewisandclark Migration & Asylum Lab for a rigorous, country-by-country assessment. 👇👇👇 sites.google.com/lclark.edu/mig…

Elliott Young of @lewisandclark and Mneesha Gellman of @EmersonCollege examined conditions in each of these countries through fieldwork, interviews, & rigorous research to give immigration courts the country conditions information they need to make informed decisions.