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Bertha Bermúdez
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🇲🇽 Sociologist. Assistant Professor at New Mexico State University.

Immigration policies | Deportation | Border Studies | Violence | Visual Ethnography

www.berthabermudeztapia.com
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📚New Book
Edited by Cynthia Bejarano and Maria Cristina Morales, this collection articulates the collective experiences of Latinx, Black, and Indigenous mothering across the U.S.-Mexico border, challenging dominant narratives of parenting and Latinx womxnhood.

uapress.arizona.edu/book/fronter...
April 24, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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📸Meet your ABS board
The ABS could not be what it is without the time and energy given by its members.

Here are your board members serving a term for the 2025-2028 period:
1) Dr. Bertha Bermudez Tapia
2) Dr. Ekaterina Mikhailova
3) Dr. @ojwalther.bsky.social
May 2, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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@naynagupta.bsky.social explains that the rule will be "ineffective" if it doesn't add assurances/protections to individuals to calm fears.

"It creates yet another tool for the Trump administration to advance the mass deportation agenda," she added.

Read more from BBC News: immcouncil.co/43eRGDG
Trump administration to require undocumented migrants to register
The Trump administration believes the announcement will encourage mass 'self deportations'.
immcouncil.co
February 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Our Winter '25 issue is now live and unpaywalled at journals.sagepub.com/toc/CTX/current! Want a clickable table of contents? Go here: contexts.org/articles/w25-toc/. Want a playlist for all this sociology, with songs inspired by the articles in this issue? Go here: open.spotify.com/playlist/2Io...
February 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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👀Important video on the waste of taxpayer $$$’s to produce political theatre.
The Hidden Costs of Trump’s Military Deportations vs. Civilian ICE Flights: An Analysis www.wsj.com/video/analys...
Analysis Reveals the High Costs of Trump’s Military Deportation Flights
A WSJ analysis of aircraft and flight tracking data found that Trump’s military deportation flights are carrying fewer migrants and costing far more money than ICE’s civilian deportation flights. WSJ’...
www.wsj.com
February 13, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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February 10, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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High NIH dependence, modest endowments spell trouble for some of the universities doing most cutting edge and important research. Especially with cuts to indirect %. How likely are researchers to take risks in this scarcity scenario. Great thread by @epopppp.bsky.social
Here are the 25 institutions that receive the most NIH funding (98% of HHS is NIH). Basically, they're large schools with large hospitals. They receive 50% of all NIH funding.

Source: ncses.nsf.gov/surveys/fede... (table 26)

(Not going to do a whole thread but thought folks might be interested.)
February 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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The Trump administration is ending protections for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelan immigrants in the US

The end of Temporary Protected Status & humanitarian parole could have deep ramifications for an immigrant community that has grown rapidly in recent years
bit.ly/venezuelanim...
February 6, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Critics argue that DEI unfairly advantages unqualified workers, promotes division among employees, and leads to a decline in productivity. Research shows categorically that the reverse is true. Beyond Buzzwords: The Real Impact of Race, Gender, and DEI at Work
www.newswise.com/articles/bey...
February 6, 2025 at 5:58 PM