The purpose of the Immigration Bureaucracy Lab is to reconstruct the making of the post 9/11 US homeland security bureaucracy, to track the international development of the US homeland security bureaucracy, to document the expansion of the US homeland security bureaucracy despite the accumulation of errors and violations, and to trace the interconnected development of US and Mexican migration and border bureaucracies.

Research Assistants

• Bureaucracy and the American State | Olivia Lowry and Jazmin Zamudio
• Bureaucracy and the Mexican State | Luz Ríos Rodríguez
• Bureaucracy and Oversight | Summer Mai Li Suliman and Yasmin Roach
• Bureaucracy Across Borders | Hailey Saya Tomlinson, Katie Mejia, and Kat Davila
• Bureaucracy and Mexican Political Landscapes | Roseliane Corona and Xavier Del Cid Avila
• Bureaucracy and Digital Deployments | Victórya Leal Altmayer Silva
• Multi-Sited Bureaucracy | Sandy Monter Casio and Christine Wong

Internal Reports

• INS/DHS Operations: Tracking the Border (1954-2012)
  • Lead RA: Hailey Saya Tomlinson
• DHS Bureaucracy Archival Guide (2001-2011)
  • Lead RA: Olivia Lowry
• The U.S.-Mexico Bilateral Relationship (1999-2024)
  • Lead RA: Victórya Leal Altmayer Silva
    

Training Guides

• Analyzing Primary Sources in Zotero
  • Lead RA: Victórya Leal Altmayer Silva
• Analyzing Secondary Sources in Zotero
  • Lead RA: Victórya Leal Altmayer Silva

Mini-Lecture Series

As part of the Lab, students have the opportunity to receive additional methods training and to present a lecture showcasing these methods in action.

• “Counterdata and Countermapping” by Xavier Del Cid Avila
• “Archiving the Homeland Security State” by Olivia Lowry
• “Community Driven Archives & Testimonios” by Luz Rios Rodriguez and Katie Mejia