I don’t like that my citizenship AJS article has become policy relevant because of the implications. But at least it’s getting recognized www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/b...

What Ireland and Germany Can Teach Us About Birthright Citizenship

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Honorable Mentions: @petercatron.bsky.social, María Vignau Loría, & @sarahefarr.bsky.social . 2024. "Contextual Boundaries: Skin Tone Stratification and Skill Transferability Among Mexicans in the Age of Mass Migration." @readdemography.bsky.social 61(5): 1377-1402.

The Supreme Court hears oral arguments about birthright citizenship this Wednesday. Here we use peer-reviewed research to debunk all of the claims being made by the Trump administration and their amici

Peter Catron@petercatron.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Protecting all children. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

The Supreme Court hears oral arguments about birthright citizenship this Wednesday. Here we use peer-reviewed research to debunk all of the claims being made by the Trump administration and their amici

Peter Catron@petercatron.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Protecting all children. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

In this day and age, why would yet another section of the ASA save us?

Immensely grateful to share an amicus brief on birthright citizenship, submitted to SCOTUS last week. We present esta of the impacted child population (4.8 mil children in next 20 yrs alone!) + financial contributions through 2074 under status quo ($7.7 trillion!). Link: lnkd.in/gGXngCDY 1/7

Protecting all children. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

Protecting all children. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it. Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

New Post-Doc Opportunity: Princeton OPR is hiring postdocs in population studies. PhD in demography or related fields (sociology, economics, epi, etc.) welcome. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/181246 Review begins 3/1/16. Please share!

This is such an important book to understand how the early months of refugee resettlement in the US unfold in practice. Congratulations, @molly-fee.bsky.social! staging.ucpress.edu/books/believ... #refugee

I hate how much of my time is spent disabling AI in all my software.

I’m hiring a postdoc! Flexible in terms of details, but I’m looking for someone to collaborate with on research about labor market inequality. I’ll review applications as they come in and the posting just went up here: apply.interfolio.com/178873

Sad to hear of Stew Tolnay’s passing. He was the first person to invite me to coffee when I started working here and gave incredible feedback on my work. He will be missed.

Cool paper. A lot of work! "immigrants who completed the naturalization process attained significantly higher occupational status than those who initiated but did not complete naturalization"

Peter Catron@petercatron.bsky.social · 10mo ago

New working paper. Comments always welcome osf.io/preprints/so...

New working paper. Comments always welcome osf.io/preprints/so...

I'm trying to find some sociology papers to bring into my intro statistics course for grad students. Straightforward quant analyses where the data are publicly available. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Ending birthright citizenship would increase the undocumented population by 5.4 million by 2075: www.migrationpolicy.org/news/birthri...

Repealing Birthright Citizenship Would Significantly Increase the Size of the U.S. Unauthorized Population

Repealing birthright citizenship for babies born on U.S. soil to unauthorized immigrants or temporary visa holders would have a contrary result from its stated aim of reducing the unauthorized immigra...

migrationpolicy.org

Picking berries is a blood sport that I enjoy.

My university is removing our landlines from our offices to save costs. The thing is I ripped my landline out of the wall the moment I got here because it rang and I didn’t know how to use it.

Shout out to @caitlinpatler.bsky.social for her hard work on this. I’m happy for the small part I played in this, too.

Michael Clemens@mclem.org · last yr.

Our research shows that ending birthright citizenship "would cause serious harm…to the entire United States." It is my honor to join with 95 other social scientists, all of us specialists in US immigration, in signing this new Amicus Curiae brief. ☞ storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Hi fellow #demography folks. Be sure to follow @uwcsde.bsky.social ! They are new to Bluesky . @sarahquinn.bsky.social @petercatron.bsky.social @zalmquist.bsky.social @readdemography.bsky.social @popassocamerica.bsky.social @iaphs.bsky.social @iussp.bsky.social @berkeleypopcenter.bsky.social

Has anyone done a FOIA request at the National Archives?

For my inaugural post on this app, I'd like to invite anyone attending #PAA2025 to come to my talk! I'm very excited to attend my first PAA @popassocamerica.bsky.social meeting and share this research (and hopefully get good feedback as I refine and revise).

If you have leads on academic or academic-adjacent jobs that would make sense, I'd greatly appreciate to hear from you. 5/5

We’re excited to receive nominations for papers written by graduate students doing important work on inequality, poverty, and mobility. More info here: www.asanet.org/communities-... bsky.app/profile/fabi...

Fabian Pfeffer@fabianpfeffer.bsky.social · last yr.

Please nominate an (or your) article by March 31 for the 2025 ROBERT D. MARE GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER AWARD (published in 2024) Send a brief nomination letter and the pdf to Matthew Clair (mclair@stanford.edu) @mathuclair.bsky.social /4

Please nominate an (or your) article by March 31 for the 2025 ROBERT D. MARE GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER AWARD (published in 2024) Send a brief nomination letter and the pdf to Matthew Clair (mclair@stanford.edu) @mathuclair.bsky.social /4

Surveillance from a “small army” of private citizens never stops at immigrants. See the American Protective League during WWI.

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · last yr.

Five alarm fire. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

I am thrilled to share that I will be joining the Department of Sociology at Emory University this fall as an Assistant Professor! Excited for a new chapter in Atlanta 🔥🍑