'Imagining proximity, building infrastructure' - following her visit to Bristol, @catherinesramirez.bsky.social (UC Santa Cruz) reflects on the relationship between our cities and the potential for long-distance solidarity in the face of rising anti-migration policies 👉 https://bit.ly/4aOMdqr
📢 A new episode of our "Production Site" #podcast has been released: #1 – The Forerunner! Meet Czarina Wilpert, who helped shape the beginnings of #migration #research in #Germany. More information and link to audio: buff.ly/FpmGRWm #SFB1604 #Migrationsforschung #MigrationStudies #Immigration
A new series rolling out on publicbooks.org, "Fascism's Building Blocks," was commissioned by MiSC members @naomipaik.bsky.social and @catherinesramirez.bsky.social and examines the laws that paved the way for today's emergent fascism. Check it out! www.publicbooks.org/tag/fascisms...
'How can "race" unbox migration?' In the latest episode of MMB's Migration Unboxed podcast @catherinesramirez.bsky.social and Bridget Anderson discuss how the politics of racial discourses plays into the politics of migration. Listen to the full episode here 👉 https://bit.ly/4oULWrx
Amid false claims about non-citizens voting & calls for stricter voter ID laws, this is an apt time to re-circulate "How Real ID Excludes Real Americans," an essay I published last May in @zocalopublicsquare.bsky.social
Catherine Sue Ramírez@catherinesramirez.bsky.social · last yr.When my US citizen father died, he was effectively "undocumented." I honor his memory & call attention to the dangers of #RealID & the SAVE Act in @zocalopublicsquare.bsky.social . www.zocalopublicsquare.org/how-real-id-...
Right-wing influencers like Johnson were primarily taking aim at homeless and transitional housing — and exaggerating their “findings.” It’s a strategy state election officials have long been aware of. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/rig...
Right-wing influencers are going viral claiming voter fraud. The problem? They’re wrong
“A lot of this is about homeless people, or people who are in sort of dire situations financially, living in buildings that are condemned… and moving, and therefore the building no longer exists. But ...
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Lots to learn about migration to & from Spain. Students at & beyond @ucsantacruz.bsky.social are invited to join me in "Latin American Spain," a seminar I'll teach in Madrid June 22-July 24, 2026. Register here for our Zoom info session on Thur, Feb 19, 1-2pm PT: ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 6mo agoIn @nytopinion.nytimes.com “MAGA-style leaders may say that our country can’t handle taking in so many migrants, that this is a suicidal move — the desperate act of a collapsing country,” writes Pedro Sánchez, the prime minister of Spain. “But don’t let them fool you. Spain is booming.”
“Three days after the crash, the 28 Mexican victims were buried in separate coffins in a mass grave in a Fresno cemetery. Their families were not notified about the burial.”
The Once and Future Deportation Flight? - Public Books
78 years ago today, a US plane deporting 28 Mexican nationals crashed into California’s Los Gatos Canyon, killing all aboard.
publicbooks.org
BREAKING: Hours after federal immigration officers killed a man in Minneapolis, Attorney General Pam Bondi seized upon the incident to demand access to Minnesota’s voter rolls, directly tying the Trump administration’s quest for voters’ unredacted personal data to its aggressive immigration raids.
AG Bondi demands access to Minnesota voter rolls after fatal Border Patrol shooting
Her demand came as Minneapolis was reeling from a second fatal shooting by a federal agent this month.
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We will show up strong and peaceful on Saturday. Join us!! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...
NO KINGS Santa Cruz · No Kings
## Santa Cruz March Details - Join us at 10am for a short rally at Upper San Lorenzo Park (Duck Pond Stage). We will then march from the park on the sidewalk on Dakota Ave. to Soquel Ave. and then up...
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Indivisible ❌👑@indivisible.org · last yr.Trump’s attempt to chill dissent with militarized escalation isn’t working: “What it’s done is drive so many new people to the No Kings website looking for a way to show up peacefully against this autocratic overreach.” - @ezralevin.bsky.social Join us on Saturday: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...
When my US citizen father died, he was effectively "undocumented." I honor his memory & call attention to the dangers of #RealID & the SAVE Act in @zocalopublicsquare.bsky.social . www.zocalopublicsquare.org/how-real-id-...
How Real ID Excludes Real Americans | Essay
My Dad’s Birth Certificate Said Vicente. His Passport Said Vince. New Legislation Would Have Disenfranchised Him
zocalopublicsquare.org
This month, airports started enforcing REAL IDs, but acquiring a REAL ID can be challenging, even for U.S. citizens and military veterans. Indeed, it can make some Americans “undocumented.” Read from scholar @catherinesramirez.bsky.social: zps.la/4j0rFMS
How Real ID Excludes Real Americans | Essay
My Dad’s Birth Certificate Said Vicente. His Passport Said Vince. New Legislation Would Have Disenfranchised Him
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Co-published on @calmatters.org today: @catherinesramirez.bsky.social for @zocalopublicsquare.bsky.social on how Real IDs risk disenfranchising Californians because of "the ways American culture coerces and seduces both natives and newcomers to comply with its norms." calmatters.org/commentary/2...
How Real ID can exclude ‘real’ Americans from voting, flying and more | Opinion
A declined Real ID application basically rendered a California man "undocumented," risking disenfranchisement given new federal legislation.
calmatters.org
“I love it.” (Trump’s response to Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele’s offer to imprison US citizens in El Salvador.) www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/o...
Opinion | From Stan Mack: A Nightmare for These Times
The cartoonist offers a drawing in response to a guest essay.
nytimes.com
Federal agents have been filmed wearing masks while making arrests in public. When is it legal for police and the public to conceal their faces in an age of digital facial recognition and doxxing?
Masked officers in Tufts student arrest raise fears among immigrants and bystanders
Federal agents have been filmed wearing masks while making arrests in public. When is it legal for police and the public to conceal their faces in an age of digital facial recognition and doxxing?
npr.org
How Colleges Are Cracking Down on Students Now www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/u...
How Colleges Are Surveilling Students Now
Colleges are using surveillance videos and search warrants to investigate students involved in pro-Palestinian protests. Experts say it’s a new frontier in campus security that could threaten civil li...
nytimes.com
Mark Joseph Stern on the DOJ's insufficient answers on the Venezuelan migrants deportations, saying how tattoos like "simple innocent images were essentially rebranded as gang affiliation. It's absurd...it shows why this admin. did not want to grant these men any due process" #SaturdayShow
“Mexican food was everywhere and it was celebration food. It was party food. It was becoming such a big part of US life, and at the same time, we were exhibiting more and more rejection of Mexican people as newcomers, but citizens were not immune either.”
Lori A. Flores on “Awaiting their Feast”
You probably remember the picture of himself, both thumbs up, that Donald Trump posted on social media with the caption, “Best Taco Bowl.” It was his ode to Mexican food on Cinco de Mayo 2016. The ...
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“Not only is silence in the face of mounting authoritarianism morally objectionable…IT’S NOT WORKING... We must learn from the past. We cannot remain silent in the face of authoritarian attacks on our peers, even if they have not yet come for us.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
What happens if we start with the assumption that human smugglers are, in fact, humans too? @jasondeleon.bsky.social & I explore this question in @publicbooks.bsky.social. www.publicbooks.org/humor-and-fe...
Humor and Fear, Kings and Soldiers: Jason De León on the Untold Story of Human Smugglers - Public Books
What happens if we start with the assumption that smugglers are, in fact, humans?
publicbooks.org
When it comes to college rankings, places like UCLA and Stanford often are No. 1. But they're nowhere near the top of a new ranking of CA colleges. Instead, Cal State L.A. is No. 1. The metric by which the schools were judged? Economic mobility. My latest: www.latimes.com/california/s...
When it comes to elevating livelihoods, a CSU degree is tops in California, study says
A ranking of California colleges based on economic mobility for low- and moderate-income students puts institutions such as UCLA and Stanford outside the top 25.
latimes.com
What would the tortilla española be without the potato? What would Rosalía be without reggaeton? What would agriculture & child & elder care be without migrants? @ucsantacruz.bsky.social students, explore these questions with me in Madrid this summer. For more info: ucsc.via-trm.com/program_broc...
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/st...
Stop Trump’s cuts to cancer, diabetes and Alzheimer’s research!
As the world’s largest funder of cancer research, NIH research grants have made it possible to extend countless lives and notably reduce cancer development and death. We can also thank NIH-funded rese...
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If you want more context for indirect costs, this by Christopher Newfield is good
How universities have gotten caught in a privatization trap (essay)
Universities are caught in a privatization trap that they built themselves and that will be difficult to take apart, argues Christopher Newfield.
insidehighered.com
As a 2025-26 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar, I'll share my work on migration & Latinx visual culture, performance & speculative fiction with students & scholars across the US. If you're interested in learning more about the incoming cohort, check out www.pbk.org/visitingscho...
PBK - Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program
The Phi Beta Kappa Society's Visiting Scholar program, including the full list of scholars and their upcoming lectures.
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