The purpose of Dr. Angie Bautista-Chavez’s 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.

I: Research Assistants

Archiving the Homeland Security Bureaucracy | Olivia Lowry and Jazmin Zamudio

Border Transformations across the Mexican Landscape | Luz Ríos Rodríguez, Katie Mejia, Roseliane Corona, Victórya Leal Altmayer Silva, Xavier Del Cid Avila, Sabrina Bet-Mansour

Bureaucratic Oversight| Summer Mai Li Suliman and Yasmin Roach

Tracking Global Bureaucratic Deployments | Hailey Saya Tomlinson and Kat Davila

Two Decades of the DHS Bureaucracy | Sandy Monter Casio and Christine Wong

Mass Removals and Transportation Technologies |Honora Muratori and Kirsten Llaguno

II: 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

III: Training Workshops & Guides:

Zotero Workshop by Laura Uribe (June 2025)

Legislative History Workshop by Dr. S. Deborah Kang (July 2025)

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

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