Angie M. Bautista-Chavez

Research

My work examines the dynamic interplay between the American state and racialized migrants – at one level, how Latinx and Latinx immigrant collectives are regulated by and contend with the American state, and at another level, how the United States expands regulatory reach beyond its borders. In my book project, Exporting Borders, I explain the interdependent making of the U.S. externalization regime and the Mexican containment regime. To do so, I track the rise of the post 9/11 border bureaucracy, locate the external and racialized sources of bureaucratic power, and explain how the bureaucracy drove the latest of U.S. imperial intrusions into Latin America and the Caribbean.

I: Borders, Bureaucracy, and State Power

  1. Bautista-Chavez, Angie, and Estefanía Castañeda-Pérez, Stephanie Chan, and Ankushi Mitra. 2024. “Hierarchy in the Politics of Migration: Revisiting Race, Ethnicity, and Power in the Migration State.” International Migration Review 58(4): 2066-2117.
  2. “Revisiting Bureaucratic Autonomy” [Working Paper]
  3. “In Pursuit of Network Power? Data as Border Work, the Rise of Tech Firms, and the New Geopolitics of Border Control” [Working Paper with Isabella Bellezza-Smull and Richie Romero]
  4. Bautista-Chavez, Angie. 2023. “Review of Unauthorized Love: Mixed-Citizenship Couples Negotiating Intimacy, Immigration, and the State. By Jane Lilly López.” Political Science Quarterly 138(1): 123-125.
  5. Bautista-Chavez, Angie. 2022. “Review of Unequal Neighbors: Place Stigma and the Making of a Local Border. By Kristen Hill Maher and David Carruthers.” Perspectives on Politics 20(2): 751–52.

II: Organizations and Collective Power

  1. “Digital Technologies, US Racial Authoritarianism, and the Political Power of Marginalized People” [with LaGina Gause, Submitted the Annual Review of Political Science]
  2. “The Organizational Terrain of U.S. Latinx Politics: Mapping Theoretical and Empirical Pathways” [Working paper with Jordin Tafoya, Ricardo Romero, Kaitlyn Navarrette, Dayne Saldana, Jarizbeth Caballero, and Julia Andres]
  3. “Revisiting Representation and the Role of Latino Intermediaries: Intersectional Constituencies and Place-Based Politics” [Working Paper with Jordin Tafoya, Kaitlyn Navarrette, and Dayne Saldana]
    • Winner of the 2024 Western Political Science Association’s Latina/Latino Politics Best Paper Award
  4. “The Latino Civic Ecosystem at Work in Arizona: Past, Present, and Future Trajectories” [Working Report with Jordin Tafoya, Dayne Saldana, Kaitlyn Navarrette, Jarizbeth Caballero, Julia Andres] [For UCLA LPPI]
  5. Bautista-Chavez, Angie M. and Sarah James. 2019. “Beyond Likely Voters: An Event Analysis of Conservative Political Outreach.” Political Science Quarterly 134(3): 407-443.
  6. Bautista-Chavez, Angie M. and Sarah James. 2018. “How Conservative Political Organizations Engage and Try to Recruit Left-Leaning Constituencies.” Scholars Strategy Network.

III: Immigration Policy: DACA & TPS

  1. Prchal Svajlenka, Nicole, Tom Jawetz, and Angie Bautista-Chavez. 2017. “A New Threat to DACA Could Cost States Billions of Dollars.” Center for American Progress.
  2. Prchal Svajlenka, Nicole, Angie Bautista-Chavez, and Laura Muñoz Lopez. 2017. “TPS Holders Are Integral Members of the U.S. Economy and Society.” Center for American Progress.
  3. CAP Immigration Team. Temporary Protected Status: State-by-State Fact Sheets. 2017. Center for American Progress.
  4. Gonzales, Roberto G. and Angie M. Bautista-Chavez. 2014. “Two Years and Counting: Assessing the Growing Power of DACA.” American Immigration Council.

IV: Politics of Knowledge Production & Non-Extractive Social Science

  1. Mitra, Ankushi, Curtis Kline, and Angie M. Bautista-Chavez. 2024. “Civically Engaged Research in Political Science: A Methodological Guide. Politics, Groups, and Identities: 1–28.
  2. Bautista-Chavez, Angie and Stephanie Chan. 2023. “Institute for Civically Engaged Research (ICER) 2023 Reflection.” Political Science Now.
  3. “How to Conduct Civically Engaged Research in A Time of Contentious Politics” Special Issue in Politics, Groups, and Identities
    • Special Issue Co-Editor with Shelly Arsneault, Stephanie Chan, and Valerie Martinez-Ebers
  4. “The Community Research Consultant Model and Civically Engaged Research” [R&R with Politics, Groups, and Identities with Dulce Juarez, Andrea Whiting, and Victoria Villalba]
  5. “Building a Social Science Lab: A Model for More Inclusive Systems of Knowledge Production” (Working paper with Jordin Tafoya, Ricardo Romero, Julie Andres, Jarizbeth Caballero, Kaitlyn Navarrette, and Dayne Saldana)