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David FitzGerald
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Sociology professor at University of California San Diego and (co)author of The Refugee System (2023); Refuge beyond Reach (2019); and Culling the Masses (2014). I research policies and experiences around migration and asylum.
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David FitzGerald @fitzgeralducsd.bsky.social · Nov 27
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 1d
Detention Reports has been updated to include a national map of all active ICE detention facilities that link to individual facility reports. Learn about this new feature and other new features at my latest post: austinkocher.substack.com/p/the-best-s...

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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 1d
I don't have a publicist, therefore I am the publicist. New website for my forthcoming book. Please especially check out the Author Q&A at the end of the page (Why did i write the book? Who's it for?. Journos, pod-casters, museums can find my contact info & how to obtain a bound review copy. 1/
Book - Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship — Anna O. Law
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David FitzGerald @fitzgeralducsd.bsky.social · 4d
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!

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#refugee

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David FitzGerald @fitzgeralducsd.bsky.social · Jan 7
"Mapping the Global North bias in forced migration studies: three decades of publication and citation trends." Open access at academic.oup.com/jrs/advance-...
Mapping the Global North bias in forced migration studies: three decades of publication and citation trends
Abstract. Academic literature on forced displacement has been criticized for disproportionately focusing on the Global North, despite the significant conce
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David FitzGerald @fitzgeralducsd.bsky.social · Nov 19
looking forward to taking part in this online panel Thursday, 20 November
isanet.bsky.social International Studies Association @isanet.bsky.social · Nov 14
In an era of displacement and mobility, #Global #Migration #Governance is at a pivotal moment. Join us for a discussion on this complex #Legal, #Ethical, & #Moral topic, that touches on everything from #Economic struggles, #Political repression, #ClimateChange, & #Global conflicts: buff.ly/zp63jAh
Global Migration Governance at a Crossroads: The Narrative of Global Responsibility and Its Legal and Ethical Implications. Nov 20, 2025. 9-10 am (ET). ISA logo. Background: Crossroads seen from above.

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It has been almost a year since I have written anything here. Which dovetails nicely into what prompted me to write. We spent the day in Manhattan today. Beautiful day with friends, nice brunch and then off into …..the full on Christmas. I get it, time is fleeting. The imperatives of retail and even of the “holiday party” business calendar are what…

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International Studies Association @isanet.bsky.social · Nov 14
In an era of displacement and mobility, #Global #Migration #Governance is at a pivotal moment. Join us for a discussion on this complex #Legal, #Ethical, & #Moral topic, that touches on everything from #Economic struggles, #Political repression, #ClimateChange, & #Global conflicts: buff.ly/zp63jAh
Global Migration Governance at a Crossroads: The Narrative of Global Responsibility and Its Legal and Ethical Implications. Nov 20, 2025. 9-10 am (ET). ISA logo. Background: Crossroads seen from above.

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Immigration and Ethnic History Society @iehs.bsky.social · Nov 14
New blog post on the IEHS blog, Not From Here: Authors on Authors: Kevin Kenny & Maddalena Marinari with Hardeep Dhillon

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Authors on Authors: Kevin Kenny & Maddalena Marinari
Kevin Kenny and Maddalena Marinari, Rituals of Migration: Irish and Italians on the Move (New York University Press, 2025). In Rituals of Migration, editors Kevin Kenny and Maddalena Marinari—with …
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David FitzGerald @fitzgeralducsd.bsky.social · Nov 4
done!

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David FitzGerald @fitzgeralducsd.bsky.social · Nov 4
my review recommending Migration Governance in North America: Policy, Politics, and Community, edited by Kiran Banerjee & Craig Damian Smith

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Migration Governance in North America: Policy, Politics, and Community. Edited by Kiran Banerjee and Craig Damian Smith. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2024. 510p. | Perspectives on Politi...
Migration Governance in North America: Policy, Politics, and Community. Edited by Kiran Banerjee and Craig Damian Smith. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2024. 510p.
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Şener Aktürk @senerakturk.bsky.social · Oct 27
I'm delighted to serve on "The Outstanding Article Award in International History and Politics" committee @apsa.bsky.social Deadline for nominations is January 31, 2026. Details of the nomination and a list of previous winners can be found at the APSA-IHaP website connect.apsanet.org/s34/nominati...
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David FitzGerald @fitzgeralducsd.bsky.social · Oct 22
paid Research & Advocacy Fellow,
Migration & Human Rights Program,
Cornell Law School. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/309...
Cornell University, Law School
Job #AJO30923, Research & Advocacy Fellow, Migration & Human Rights Program, Law School, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, US
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David FitzGerald @fitzgeralducsd.bsky.social · Oct 21
call for special issues @migrationjrnl.bsky.social academic.oup.com/migration/pa...
2025 Call for Special Issue Proposals
Deadline: 15 December 2025 Migration Studies is now accepting Special Issue proposals. The journal typically publishes one call for special issues pe
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David FitzGerald @fitzgeralducsd.bsky.social · Oct 17
mi capítulo “La migración mexicana y la ley” está disponible en acceso abierto en la antología "Construyendo el gran México.
La emigración mexicana a Estados Unidos" librosdigitales.colsan.edu.mx/detalles.php...

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David FitzGerald @fitzgeralducsd.bsky.social · Sep 26
hats off to @usnatarchives.bsky.social
for displaying pre-WW2 refugee documents - a refugee from Soviet Armenia seeking to stay in USA in 1934 bc he was a political or religious refugee and would be stateless if deported. Act of June 8, 1934 is often forgotten in #RefugeeHistory

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David FitzGerald @fitzgeralducsd.bsky.social · Sep 19
It was a real coup to get my hands on a copy of Paolo Boccagni's new book. This ethnography of the absurd confronts the existential question of what it means to live in limbo while waiting for asylum.

Available open access from @ucpress.bsky.social

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David FitzGerald @fitzgeralducsd.bsky.social · Jul 27
Congratulations to @hekwon.bsky.social for her new publication, "Privileged pariahs: agency of Korean expatriate mothers in the UAE"

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Maarten Vink @maartenpvink.bsky.social · Jul 26
I'm excited to share pre-print of a ✨ new paper with the great @sumpierrez.bsky.social!

We study ’pathways of external citizenship’ across 194 countries 🌎 since 1960. We do so by building a sequence analysis of the timing and extent of dual citizenship acceptance and external voting rights.

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Title Pathways to External Citizenship: The Global Extension of Dual Citizenship and Voting From Abroad Authors Sebastian Umpierrez de Reguero and Maarten Vink Description The extension of dual citizenship and external voting rights over the past decades has been widely observed. Both trends contribute to the phenomenon of external citizenship, where citizens residing abroad hold rights to political participation irrespective of other transnational ties. Yet these trends have been studied in a disconnected manner. This is remarkable as the exercise of external voting requires nationals abroad to keep a legal link with the home country, while dual citizenship acceptance is high on the agenda of politically mobilized emigrant communities. In this paper, we make two original contributions. First, applying sequence analysis to a dataset covering 194 countries over 61 years (N=10,310), we identify five dominant pathways in extending rights to dual citizenship and external voting: 1) norm setters, 2) dual citizenship only, 3) external voting only, 4) latecomers, and 5) norm resisters. Second, we analyze the correlates of these pathways with a focus on the predominant political regime type. Democratic regimes are not more prone to be norm setters that adopt both forms of rights extension but are less likely to be norm resisters that do not adopt either. Partial norm extenders and latecomers are not significantly associated with a particular regime experience.

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