Research Digest

Explore the latest entries in our long-running Research Digest. Click on a title to read the full report. Thank you to our published authors for their hard and inspiring work.

Fall 2024

Spring 2024

Katia Diamond-Sagias

Pursuing “Alternative Forms of Life”: Migrant Resistance in Greece and its Implications for Visions of Borderlessness

Dr. Julia Roncoroni

A Feast of Dreams: How a Community Cookbook is Becoming a Beacon of Hope

Ella Iveslatt

A System Designed for Failure: Due Process Errors in Denver’s EOIR Court

Alex Nelson

The Protection Paradox: LGBTQ Asylum Seekers and Humanitarian Logics

Winter 2024

Madison Bryant

My Summer at FORA Chicago

Claudia Castillo

Does Language Access Work?

Avrie Davisson

The Biden-Harris Administration’s ‘Asylum Ban’: A Strict New Policy Affecting Those Seeking Refuge in the United States

Ila Dovre Wudali

Resilience Revealed: Navigating Resettlement Realities – Summer Internship Insights and Policy Pivots

Frannie Lahey-Teare

A Personal Exploration of Immigration Advocacy

Summer 2023

Ping Robert

International Doctoral Students’ Experiences in Educational Administration Programs in the U.S.: Academic and Career Support

Rebecca David Hensley

Organizing for Immigrant Justice in (White + Christian) Texas

Nicole Loy

Healthcare Accessibility and Equity in Colorado

KP Hartman, Lydia Mathis, & Dr. Tiamo Katsonga-Phiri

Missing Pieces: Learnings & Next Steps from Focus Groups with Cultural Navigators and Brokers for Newly Resettled Afghan Refugees

Carolina Martínez

Letters of Change: The Power of Correspondence in Detention

Naiyear Khajavei

Educational Empowerment at Chaska: Addressing Gender Inequality among Internal Migrants in Cusco, Peru

Fall 2022

Dani Ekstrand and Bianca Garcia

El Centro Humanitario: Inclusivity and Community Building

Allie Benz

Defining the “Good” Victim: T-Visas and Morality

Hastin Crosby

Demilitarization Towards Border Abolition

Lexi Kilbane and Sam Colvett

Community Organizing, Precarity, and a New Approach with Day Laborers and Immigrant Workers

Jimena Ferrer

Unmasking the "Alien"

Shailyn Lineberry

The Transnational Carceral Model: Empowering Sovereign Illusions through the Suppression of the Stateless

Madi Wickett & DaZha Creal

The Barriers to Legal Representation for Asylum Seekers

Carlos Jimenez Jr.

Podcasting Immigrant Colorado

Spring 2022

Zoe Henderson, Kayla Hofmann, and Maria Ventura

Clerical Errors and their associated due process violations on expedited review

Mia Grant and Monika Tomica

Overcoming misconceptions is just one of the many hurdles in U.S Immigration

Michelle Carrere Seizer and Caitlin Long

Do systems work in favor of vulnerable workers? Insights from wage theft recovery of Colorado's day laborers

Brianna Klipp and Kat Englert

Opinion Piece: Insights into the Structural Disadvantages that Day Laborers Face and Proposed Solutions

Riley Judd

Migrating to Mental Hell: the mental health crisis hiding in plain sight

Fall 2021

Dr. Julia Roncoroni

Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Julia Roncoroni

Dr. Lisa Martinez

Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Lisa Martinez

Michelle Carrere Seizer

Review of "'Illegal' Traveler: An Auto-Ethnography of Borders"

Todd Miller

Interview Student Reflection

Chloe Rekow

Review of "Threshold: Emergency Responders on the US-Mexico Border"

Spring 2021

Sam Colvett

Rainfall, Drought and Emigration in Guatemala, 2015-2018

Sandra Hernandez Tobón

Unos Pinches Papeles: Stories from Mixed-Status Families

Panel Discussion

New Administration, Better Immigration Policies?

Eada Gendelman

Migration and Mental Health: An Overview of the Current Crisis

2020

Megan O'Brien

Women and Wage Theft

Sam Colvett and Bianca Garcia

Indigenous Latinx Migrants

Rezwan Masud

Vicious Nexus between the GEO Group and ICE

Asabea Amaniampong and Mari Henderson

On Morality and Personhood in the Immigration System

Dr. Lynn Holland

Travel with us to Chiapas, Mexico! (when all this is over)

Spring 2019

Leah Breevoort, Ali Sheets, and Rachel Goodman

When ICE Agents Act Like Thugs, America Loses

Meghan McCarroll and Gena Medoff

The Power of Numbers

Anonymous

Humanizing the Dehumanized

Katie Garra

For Those of You Who Don't Know: I Hate Flying

Vicky Alarcón

Tratémoslos como lo que son, como humanos

Winter 2019

Leah Breevoort

To Be a Power Broker, You Must Break Norms: Australian Refugee Detention Policy

Summer Downs

Externalizing Borders, Externalizing Harms, The Violent Impact of EU Policies on Migrant Rights in Libya

Amanda Kragt

Externalization of U.S.-Mexico Border: Obscuring Accountability and Implications for Migrants

Spring 2018

Diego Bleifuss Prados

NAFTA’s Effect on Immigration to the United States

Jeremy Daley

UAC Migration 2014: Attention and Responses

Abbey Vogel

Temporary Protected Status and Immigration Flows

Aliza Vaccher

Forced Migration from Central America

Research Digest

Fall 2024

Melanie Torres-Godoy

Lisa M. Martinez

Yara Balouk

Elizabeth Jordan and Gwen Mitchell

Fatema Juhra, Julia del Olmo Parrado and Kelly Nilan

Spring 2024

Katia Diamond-Sagias

Dr. Julia Roncoroni

Ella Iveslatt

Alex Nelson

Winter 2024

Madison Bryant

Claudia Castillo

Avrie Davisson

Ila Dovre Wudali

Frannie Lahey-Teare

Summer 2023

Ping Robert

Rebecca David Hensley

Nicole Loy

KP Hartman, Lydia Mathis, & Dr. Tiamo Katsonga-Phiri

Carolina Martínez

Naiyear Khajavei

Fall 2022

Dani Ekstrand and Bianca Garcia

Allie Benz

Hastin Crosby

Lexi Kilbane and Sam Colvett

Jimena Ferrer

Shailyn Lineberry

Madi Wickett & DaZha Creal

Carlos Jimenez Jr.

Spring 2022

Zoe Henderson, Kayla Hofmann, and Maria Ventura

Mia Grant and Monika Tomica

Michelle Carrere Seizer and Caitlin Long

Brianna Klipp and Kat Englert

Riley Judd

Fall 2021

Dr. Julia Roncoroni

Dr. Lisa Martinez

Michelle Carrere Seizer

Todd Miller

Chloe Rekow

Spring 2021

Sam Colvett

Sandra Hernandez Tobón

Panel Discussion

Eada Gendelman

2020

Megan O'Brien

Sam Colvett and Bianca Garcia

Rezwan Masud

Asabea Amaniampong and Mari Henderson

Dr. Lynn Holland

Spring 2019

Leah Breevoort, Ali Sheets, and Rachel Goodman

Meghan McCarroll and Gena Medoff

Anonymous

Katie Garra

Vicky Alarcón

Winter 2019

Leah Breevoort

Summer Downs

Amanda Kragt

Spring 2018

Diego Bleifuss Prados

Jeremy Daley

Abbey Vogel

Aliza Vaccher