I: BUREAUCRACY, BORDERS & MIGRATION
Exporting Borders
In my book project, Exporting Borders, I explain how the U.S. externalization regime and the Mexican containment regime are mutually constituted. To do so, I trace the rise of the post-9/11 border bureaucracy, identify the transnational and racialized sources of its power, and explain how it drove the latest U.S. imperial intrusion into Latin America and the Caribbean.
“Revisiting Bureaucratic Autonomy”
In this working paper, I offer a new framework for understanding the strategies of U.S. agencies to build bureaucratic power.
“Hierarchy in the Politics of Migration”
Article published in the International Migration Review with Ankushi Mitra, Stephanie Chan, and Estefania Castañeda Pérez.
“As scholars map such formations and transformations in the practice of sovereignty, we look forward to more scholarship which closely examines the continuously evolving and contingent nature of state regulation of human mobility, including the ways states’ own transnational mobility and ensuing policy cascades impact states and societies far beyond their own borders .”
Read Full Article Here: https://doi.org/10.1177/01979183241275461
Book Review of Unauthorized Love
Book Review of Mixed-Citizenship Couples Negotiating Intimacy, Immigration, and the State by Jane Lilly López in Political Science Quarterly
“Political scientists and economists have developed robust research agendas examining the interplay between individuals and institutions, often leveraging game-theoretic models. While Unauthorized Love does not directly engage with these debates, the book provides significant insights into how mixed-citizenship couples (two interdependent players)—individually and collectively navigate the U.S. family reunification process—a multistep process riddled with formal and informal rules administered by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) agents operating with high levels of discretion.”
Read Full Book Review Here: https://doi.org/10.1093/psquar/qqac007
Book Review of Unequal Neighbors
Book Review of Unequal Neighbors: Place Stigma and the Making of a Local Border by Kristen Hill Maher and David Carruthers in Perspectives on Politics
“Ultimately, Unequal Neighbors is a step forward in mapping and making visible the actors, interests, and conditions that sustain and challenge hegemonic narratives, unequal relationships, and bordering projects. Its publication occurs during a pivotal political time when scholars are revisiting, challenging, and recentering understandings of interstate relations, borders, transnational connections, and more.”
Read Full Book Review Here: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592722000755
“In Pursuit of Network Power?”
In this working paper with Isabella Bellezza-Smull and Richie Romero, “In Pursuit of Network Power? Data as Border Work, the Rise of Tech Firms, and the New Geopolitics of Border Control,” we examine the politics of data and borders.
II: ORGANIZATION(S) & POWER
“The Power-Enhancing and Power-Diminishing Effects of Digital Technologies: Marginalized People and US Racial Authoritarianism“
Forthcoming in Volume 29 of the Annual Review of Political Science with LaGina Gause. We chart paths forward for the study of civic engagement in the digital era by centering marginalized groups, situating their collective power within the context of US racial authoritarianism, and examining digital technologies as part of dynamic battles over power distribution in the United States.
Read Full Article Here: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-polisci-042224-082228
“The Organizational Terrain of U.S. Latinx Politics: Mapping Theoretical and Empirical Pathways”
In this working paper with Jordin Tafoya, Ricardo Romero, Kaitlyn Navarrette, Dayne Saldana, Jarizbeth Caballero, and Julia Andres, we examine the organizational terrain of Latino political life across the United States.
“Revisiting Representation and the Role of Latino Intermediaries”
Conference Paper with Jordin Tafoya, Kaitlyn Navarrette, and Dayne Saldana. Winner of the 2024 Western Political Science Association’s Latina/Latino Politics Best Paper Award.
“The Latino Civic Ecosystem at Work in Arizona: Past, Present, and Future Trajectories”
In this December 2023 internal report, Jordin Tafoya, Dayne Saldana, Kaitlyn Navarrette, Jarizbeth Caballero, Julia Andres, and I review the work of organizations and leaders who work year-round to serve and advocate for Latinx, immigrant, and marginalized communities across Arizona. We delivered this report to the UCLA Latino Policy & Politics Institute in support of the Inaugural Latino Data Hub Action Lab.
“Beyond Likely Voters: An Event Analysis of Conservative Political Outreach”
Article published in Political Science Quarterly with Sarah James.
“By comparing the outreach strategies of these three organizations, we can test our central claim that the partisan leanings of the target group shape the type of outreach that organizations design and implement.”
Read Full Article Here: https://doi.org/10.1002/polq.12957
III: POWER-SHARING METHODOLOGIES
“Community-Based Leaders and Civically Engaged Research: Lessons from the Remaking of the Latinx Organizational Archives Project”
In this article, Dulce Juarez, Andrea Whiting, Victoria Villalba, and I show how, through a civically engaged research process, a political science project about Latino civic organizations was transformed by community-based leaders with decades of experience in organizing, movement building, and driving change.
“Civically Engaged Research in Political Science: A Methodological Guide”
Article published in Politics, Groups, and Identities with Ankushi Mitra and Curtis Kline.
“We provide guidance on how to plan and implement a civically engaged project, addressing key considerations and decisions at each step of the research process, providing a menu of options for how scholars can engage with research stakeholders at each step, and demonstrating these options with examples from real-world applications.”
Read Article Here: https://doi.org/10.1080/21565503.2024.2357078
“Institute for Civically Engaged Research 2023 Reflection”
Reflection published in Political Science Now with Stephanie Chan.
“As scholars of color have long faced disproportionate professional punishments for conducting scholarship that is community engaged, the issue editors are also committed to showcasing diversity among scholars.”
Read Reflection Here: https://politicalsciencenow.com/institute-for-civically-engaged-research-icer-2023-reflection/
Special Issue: “How to Conduct Civically Engaged Research in a Time of Contentious Politics”
Special issue in on civically engaged research in political science in Politics, Groups, and Identities. Co-Editor with Shelly Arsneault, Stephanie Chan, and Valerie Martinez-Ebers.
IV: POLICY BRIEFS
“How Conservative Political Organizations Engage and Try to Recruit Left-Leaning Constituencies”
Research brief with Sarah James published by the Scholars Strategy Network.
“Using event descriptions in conjunction with organization mission statements, blog posts, and staff biographies, allows us to compile a comprehensive picture of outreach efforts. Our data reveal the distinctive approaches used these to reach varied target audiences.”
Read Full Brief Here: https://scholars.org/contribution/how-conservative-political-organizations
“A New Threat to DACA Could Cost States Billions of Dollars.”
2017 article published by the Center for American Progress. Coauthors: Prchal Svajlenka, Nicole, and Tom Jawetz.
“The present threat to those with DACA is real. Moreover, because DACA recipients are so well integrated into families, communities, schools, and workplaces throughout the country, the economic and social effects of ending DACA would be widespread and significant.”
Read Article Here: https://www.americanprogress.org/article/new-threat-daca-cost-states-billions-dollars/
“TPS Holders Are Integral Members of the U.S. Economy and Society”
2017 article published by the Center for American Progress. Coauthors: Prchal Svajlenka, Nicole, and Laura Muñoz Lopez.
“Ending Temporary Protected Status would threaten the lives of more than 300,000 Salvadorans, Hondurans, and Haitians living and working in the United States.”
Read Article Here: https://www.americanprogress.org/article/tps-holders-are-integral-members-of-the-u-s-economy-and-society/
“Temporary Protected Status: State-By-State Fact Sheets”
2017 fact sheets published by the Center for American Progress by the CAP Immigration Team.
“If their protections expire, TPS holders will face the difficult choice of either returning to countries that still face many of the same extraordinary conditions that led to the initial grant of TPS or remaining in the United States without lawful immigration status and the ability to work legally.”
Read Fact Sheets Here: https://www.americanprogress.org/article/temporary-protected-status-state-by-state-fact-sheets/
“Two Years and Counting: Assessing the Growing Power of DACA”
2014 special report with Roberto G. Gonzales published by the American Immigration Council.
“Undoubtedly, DACA is reducing some of the challenges undocumented youth must overcome to achieve economic and social incorporation. But as an executive memorandum that shifts bureaucratic practice in U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), DACA has limited inclusionary power.”
Read Full Report Here: https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/report/two-years-and-counting-assessing-growing-power-daca/
Angie M. Bautista-Chavez 