Interested in exploring the relationship between climate change, (im)mobilities and displacement? Applications are open to attend the third annual ISCM, co-hosted by Earth Refuge and SOAS University of London online from 3 June- 10 July, 2024. Apply here by 5 April ⬇️ earthrefuge.org/international-…

I'll be in Chicago next week at American Bar Foundation talking about the experiences of human service workers caring for unaccompanied minors post-apprehension and pre-release. Hit me up for a link if you'd like to attend virtually: americanbarfoundation.org/event/speaker-…

First publication out on the newish climate project in Climate&Development. We examine how everyday humanitarian practices and violence-focused legal frameworks obscure the realities of climate-related displacement from Central America. Get at me for the PDF.

Grateful for the opportunity to chat with MigrationPolicy Inst about the big and messy concept of 'climate migration'
…gclimatechangingmigration.podbean.com/e/what-exactly…

Not into podcasts? You can find an article on the same subject here: migrationpolicy.org/article/who-is…

On this issue, I highly recommend the excellent article by Henk van Houtum & Rodrigo Bueno Lacy on 'invasion arrows': tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Also, here's a map from my book, which shows (based on older data) that basically all major refugee flows were intra-African, NONE to Europe.

BREAKING NEWS: world’s first bilateral agreement on climate mobility - Australia will provide 280 visas a year for people from Tuvalu to live, study and work in Australia dfat.gov.au/geo/tuvalu/aus…

Terrific 1st day of USC College of Social Work strategic planning retreat with faculty & staff facilitated by Holly Hayes - strategic planning was priority #1 as Dean and it is exciting to work together to plan the future & vision of the College!

Working on a paper about how practitioners use an idea like compassion fatigue to make labor-related claims. Any ideas for ethnographies/qual work on similar concepts that focus on how people 'do things' with concepts? Drawing a blank...

The irony of our roundtable on climate migration at a nearly empty conference center in Vancouver, just across the way from a fucking cruise ship, is not lost on me.

I'm so excited to announce that my book 'Making the Latino South' is going to be out in September 2023 from UNC Press in the LatinxHistories series. Beautiful cover and preorder link below 🪩✨
uncpress.org/book/978146967…

Than you to everyone who participated in the 'Care or Control?' webinar last week, which focused on systems that impact unaccompanied Central American minors. If you were unable to attend, a recording of the event is available at centeronmigration.org

This Friday!

'Care or Control? Reexamining the immigration system in place for youth and children'

A free, bilingual English/Spanish zoom webinar. 10am-1pm EST.

Register here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

¡Este viernes! 10am-1pm EST por Zoom.

Un webinar gratis y bilingüe (español y inglés) enfocado en las experiencias de menores no acompañados centroamericanos.

Para registrarse:
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Join us May 5th, 10am-1pm EST, for a webinar on systems of care and control that impact immigrant youth, with a particular focus on unaccompanied minors.

Free, on zoom, with simultaneous English/Spanish interpretation.

Registration link: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

USC College of Social Work

Unaccompanied children face significant barriers to medical & mental health care after release from ORR custody

New report spotlights promising practices in US communities to lift barriers

▶️migrationpolicy.org/research/medic…

If you missed 'Alone and Exploited', our Collaborative on Global Children's Issues webinar on migrant child labor, #migrationenforcement , labor #trafficking & abuse --told from the perspective of young people & their families--watch it now via Georgetown University YouTube channel! youtube.com/live/doFQb0t1b…

Join us May 5th, 10am-1pm EST, for a webinar on systems of care and control that impact immigrant youth, with a particular focus on unaccompanied minors.

Free, on zoom, with simultaneous English/Spanish interpretation.

Registration link: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

USC College of Social Work

Save the date for 'Care or Control? Reexamining the immigration system in place for youth and children' a free, bilingual English/Spanish webinar. Friday May 5, 10am-1pm EST, featuring Luis Zayas (UTRGV), Emily Ryo (USC), Jodi Berger (U Houston), Kerri Evans (UMBC), and others.

Sweet dreams, Max Dog. The best bad dog. Loved compost, hated engines, always by my side.