Àngel A. Escamilla García
@aaeg182.bsky.social
Assistant Professor - Yale Sociology
Language is a mirror of history. My new @sociusjournal.bsky.social visualization shows how the linguistic patterns of migrant youth map colonial legacies, internal displacement, and regional diasporas. Language reveals migration patterns invisible in country-of-origin data alone. More to come!
Language and International Migration: Visualizing the Linguistic Patterns among Unaccompanied Alien Children Detained in the United States (2014–2016) - Ángel A. Escamilla García, 2026
What do the languages spoken by migrants reveal about the social forces that shape international migration flows? This visualization of languages spoken by unac...
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New article out in @RSFjournal! With @adrianaceron.bsky.social: "Urgent Returns"examines how family separation drives deported Central Americans through dangerous journeys. Parents separated from children in the US show significantly higher remigration intentions. www.rsfjournal.org/content/11/4...
Urgent Returns: The Link Between Family and the Remigration Intentions of Deported Central Americans in an Era of Border Externalization
Research on post-deportation experiences has shown that family separation, especially separation from children and partners, shapes deported migrants’ intentions to return to the US. Yet little is kno...
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Opinion: ICE impersonators reveal how official policy is creating abuse for all immigrants
The escalation between the civilians protesting the immigration raids in California is just the latest example of how the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration agenda—restricting entry, increa...
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The externalization of legal categories: how U.S. immigration law shapes Central American youth migrants’ journeys through Mexico
This article explores the relationship between the categorization of migrants under U.S. immigration laws and how Central American migrant youth understand and make decisions about their journeys t...
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Mexico’s Immigration Crackdown Mirrors the United States
In its goal of closing the U.S. border, the incoming Trump Administration plans to continue using Mexico as an arm of U.S. immigration enforcement. Only time will tell if Mexico will continue to coope...
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