THE AMERICAN DREAM 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 10 years ago, weini kelati came to the United States to seek asylum from her native Eritrea. Now, she’s the Olympic Trials 10,000m champion and will be representing Team USA in Paris. What a story.

I'm persuaded by this argument to hold a democratic mini-primary. A lot of media coverage and a chance for voters to get excited about a new candidate. nytimes.com/2024/07/07/opi…

Donald Trump, exmandatario y candidato a la presidencia de Estados Unidos, dijo que la reducción de homicidios en El Salvador se debe a que el gobierno de Bukele está enviando pandilleros a Estados Unidos. Bajo este argumento, prometió que su eventual gobierno lanzará “la mayor

Great podcast as part of new global LGBTQ rights center at Harvard. Thanks Kristopher Velasco and Diego Garcia Blum!

#Noticias | La narrativa migratoria de Bukele no está respaldada por los datos, dice The Boston Globe. Más detalles 🔗👇 elsalvador.com/noticias/nacio…

Truly an amazing set of resources for immigration data and the most up to date news. Thank you WOLA

"Individuals linked to the last Trump administration and to Project 2025 are already working in countries including Guatemala and Uganda to embed policies based on that declaration, according to analysis by the reproductive rights group Ipas." theguardian.com/global-develop…

Check out Camilo Melara's video documenting how the El Salvador govt is breaking its own laws to destroy the environment and make more money for big business. Shame. #TikTok tiktok.com/t/ZTNWrF6sN/

My latest piece out in The Hill in which I draw from my experiences and perspective as a demographer, teacher, and former organizer: "Democrats Must Make the Economic Case for Immigration thehill.com/opinion/485505… UT Austin Sociology UT PRC ASA Int'l Migration

Pragmatic and personal argument about how to reframe the very negative public debate in the United States over immigration, by Matthew Blanton in The Hill thehill.com/opinion/485505…

🚨 New paper in the Journal of Development Econ. Are migrants from poor countries relatively high or low productivity workers? What happens to migration as incomes rise? Mariapia Mendola and I note: These are closely related questions with a counterintutive answer (thread)

Incredible little note to brighten your day in the acknowledgements of a new Swidler and Jepperson article: "This paper was originally prepared for Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Los Angeles, California, August 5–9, 1994." sociologica.unibo.it/article/view/1…

When I was younger, I wondered if I would live to see this wonderful news. Now I have: The latest generation of malaria vaccines, today being delivered to African children, have efficacy 75–79% in infants a year later (age <18mo.) pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38310910/

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