Asad L. Asad
asadasad.bsky.social
Asad L. Asad
@asadasad.bsky.social
Sociologist, writing on immigration, surveillance, and inequality. Author of ENGAGE AND EVADE: http://bit.ly/m/asadbook
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We have been interviewing immigration advocates about what it means to them to change the U.S. immigration system. Our first report is now online. We are collecting feedback from scholars and immigration advocates alike to incorporate into future work. Comments welcome!

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Friends! Inherited Inequality makes its debut Sept 16 🎉

Join me for an open & honest conversation about the power & limits of the two-parent family for improving child outcomes & addressing one of America’s most intractable problems: racial inequality

Hope to see you there!
August 29, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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ICE is seeking increasing amounts of data from localities. “We’re seeing more and more signs, especially in ‘sanctuary cities,’ where the federal government’s requests are getting bigger and bigger,” says an immigration law expert.
New Orleans May Hand Its Police Live Facial Recognition Tech. Critics Warn It’ll Help ICE.
The city says it won’t lend this tool to ICE for surveillance. But a state law requires that local officials assist ICE, and New Orleans also wants to end a court order restricting compliance.
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August 23, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Law is central to today’s social crises—from democratic backsliding to immigrant exclusion. This paper shows how cultural sociology offers rigorous explanations of, and insights into how to tackle, law-related crises. Hope it’s useful to law and society scholars and others

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August 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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W/ immigrant detention constantly in the news, I share my portfolio of peer-reviewed research on harms of this system. In @jamanetworkopen.com, we show alarmingly high prevalence of poor health, mental illness & PTSD for all, w/ esp high rates for those detained 6+mo. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
July 25, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Reminder that this is illegal. The IRS has statutory rules that forbid them-except under very specific conditions-from sharing data. The reason is very practical-if people don't trust the IRS they will avoid 'voluntarily' paying taxes. The tax system falls apart otherwise.
NEW: The IRS is building a vast effort to help the Trump Admin deportation apparatus.

A Trump-appointed IRS official objected.

Now he’s out.

& the effort is going forward.

@williamturton.bsky.social, @chrisbing.bsky.social & Avi Shapiro:

www.propublica.org/article/trum...
July 15, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Immigration enforcement *is* a public health crisis, and a longstanding one at that. It harms both physical and mental health, and its effects burden immigrants and the U.S. born alike.
🚨BREAKING: Cal State LA just moved classes online and let faculty work remotely, not for a storm, not for COVID, but because ICE is in the area.

Let that sink in, an entire university is treating immigration enforcement like a public health crisis.
July 12, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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The White House has ordered the US Dept. of Justice to prioritize denaturalization: voiding the citizenship of US citizens.

Who will it denaturalize? "Any" case that it "determines to be sufficiently important".

Point 10 leaves the criteria opaque and arbitrary.

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June 30, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Listen to the Ideas #Podcast with Asad L. Asad and @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social Network editor, Caleb Zakarin. They discuss how undocumented immigrants in the United States navigate surveillance and punishment, providing an extraordinary portrait of fear and hope on the margins.

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June 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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It's publication day for Indefensible Spaces: Policing and the Struggle for Housing, available in paper & free .epub! It traces a century of struggle over Los Angeles' periphery, culminating in the use of policing to expel and repress Black tenants. Here's a look at its chapters:
June 10, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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For nearly 60 days, no food, fuel, medicine or other items has entered the Gaza Strip, blocked by Israel.

Aid groups are running out of food to distribute. Markets are nearly bare.

Palestinian families are left struggling to feed their children.
For nearly 60 days, Israel has blocked food from Gaza. Palestinians struggle to feed their families
For nearly 60 days, no food, fuel, medicine or other item has entered the Gaza Strip, blocked by Israel.
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April 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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New article theorizing the “spatial burdens” of state institutions. Drawing on 125 interviews and over 400 hours of observations among court-involved people in the Bay Area, we show how space shapes poverty governance and institutional inequality.
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April 22, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Some commentary is focusing on how the Supreme Court order last night seems to indicate a vibe shift among some justices on whether courts can rely on representations made by Trump administration lawyers.
April 19, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Trump is Quietly Building a Deportation Army out of State and Local Agencies

Enrollment in the 287(g) program, which deputizes local police to do federal immigration enforcement, has exploded in recent weeks.

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Trump is Quietly Building a Deportation Army out of State and Local Agencies
Enrollment in the 287(g) program, which deputizes local police to do federal immigration enforcement, has exploded in recent weeks—but the administration has been surprisingly silent.
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April 14, 2025 at 3:21 PM
I have joined several dozen scholars across the social sciences in signing on to an amicus brief supporting both immigration and birthright citizenship in State of Washington v. Trump.

Read the brief here: www.courtlistener.com/docket/69621...
April 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
This is a wrongheaded move that will simultaneously sever noncitizens’ relationship to state institutions, threaten the well-being of immigrant families, and deprive Social Security beneficiaries of a tax base that has allowed the program to remain solvent. Shame.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...
I.R.S. Agrees to Share Migrants’ Tax Information with ICE
The agreement is a major departure from the Internal Revenue Service’s efforts to gain the trust of migrants and encourage them to file their taxes.
www.nytimes.com
April 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
NEW in Law & Society Review: U.S. Latinos are less likely to report institutional involvement as immigration policing intensifies—but those involved don’t spend less time. Spatial & temporal variation in formal control shapes system involvement.

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Spatial and temporal contexts of formal social control and system involvement: U.S. Latinos under immigration policing | Law & Society Review | Cambridge Core
Spatial and temporal contexts of formal social control and system involvement: U.S. Latinos under immigration policing - Volume 59 Issue 1
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April 2, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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The Eastern Sociological Society has named @asadasad.bsky.social's book Engage and Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday Life the Winner of the Mirra Komarovsky Book Award!

Learn more about this groundbreaking book:
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March 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Thanks to @erikaandiola.bsky.social, @nicoleramos.bsky.social, and @daralind.bsky.social for joining us!

Read more about the discussion here: stanforddaily.com/2025/02/10/i...
February 10, 2025 at 2:38 PM
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1/8. This week I had a few different conversations with scholars who, in the face of the attacks on science and institutions of learning in the U.S., are wondering what to do. One suggestion I have is: keep doing your work. It matters in and of itself. Why do I say that? A few reasons.
February 8, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Honored to welcome @daralind.bsky.social, @erikaandiola.bsky.social, & @nicoleramos.bsky.social to Stanford today to reflect on what immigration advocacy and reform will look like over the next few years—and where it might go thereafter. Grateful for the chance to learn from these inspiring leaders.
February 6, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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TRAC is back.
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February 5, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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A report summarizing our systems navigator pilot in a public defender’s office in San Jose. We offer recommendations for the county and other public defense agencies across the country.

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January 30, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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We made you another fact sheet -- this one about the declaration issued by the Acting DHS Sec that came out Friday that the U.S. is facing a "mass influx" endangering "all 50 states," and calling on states/localities to help

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The "Mass Influx" Declaration
In 1996, Congress passed a law giving the federal government the power to declare an emergency relating to a “mass influx” of migrants. When this emergency provision is enacted, the government can bot...
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January 27, 2025 at 8:20 PM