Cecilia Menjivar
@cecimenjivar.bsky.social
Sociologist at UCLA. I study immigration, gender-based violence, bureaucracies, gender, state power.
Congratulations to Professors Young and Calarco and all of us @asanews.bsky.social. Looking forward to their leadership!
We are pleased to announce that Alford Young, Jr. @umich.edu has been elected the 2026-2027 ASA President, and Jessica Calarco, University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been elected Vice President. Read full election results: https://bit.ly/3mFBhFz.
June 6, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Congratulations to Professors Young and Calarco and all of us @asanews.bsky.social. Looking forward to their leadership!
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Amazing first edition of El Faro’s “Central America Monthly,” packed full of superb reporting, the now-notorious interviews with El Sal gang leaders (English subtitles), a podcast episode, a deep dive into the Guatemalan genocide trial, and much much more. 👇👇
📢 Today, as El Faro celebrates 27 years of journalism, we launch our digital magazine, Central America Monthly. On the 15th of every month, El Faro English will provide deeper answers to pressing questions in our region. beta.elfaro.net/en/monthly/i...
May 15, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Amazing first edition of El Faro’s “Central America Monthly,” packed full of superb reporting, the now-notorious interviews with El Sal gang leaders (English subtitles), a podcast episode, a deep dive into the Guatemalan genocide trial, and much much more. 👇👇
Ruth López, leading human rights defender, @cristosal.bsky.social still imprisoned in El Salvador
www.npr.org/2025/05/31/n...
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Human rights activist arrested in El Salvador amidst crackdown on dissent
Leading human rights activist, Ruth López, has been arrested in El Salvador. NPR's Scott Simon speaks to her colleague Noah Bullock from the human rights organization Cristosal about the case.
www.npr.org
May 31, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Ruth López, leading human rights defender, @cristosal.bsky.social still imprisoned in El Salvador
www.npr.org/2025/05/31/n...
www.npr.org/2025/05/31/n...
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Remember last month, when you didn’t have to worry about the safety of the US nuclear arsenal? Or when you could get on a plane pretty sure you'd survive the flight?
Those were the days.
My @nytimes.com Guest Essay on DOGE, the wrecking ball crushing Americans' last remaining trust in government.
Those were the days.
My @nytimes.com Guest Essay on DOGE, the wrecking ball crushing Americans' last remaining trust in government.
It’s as though the Trump admin. is running FDR’s first 100 days in reverse: Instead of rebuilding institutions and public trust at a moment of national peril, it seems to be trying to unravel both—and is creating a moment of national peril.
(@ebharrington.bsky.social)
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/o...
(@ebharrington.bsky.social)
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/o...
Opinion | Trust Was Once an American Superpower (Gift Article)
Undermining one of our country’s greatest and least-appreciated assets.
www.nytimes.com
February 25, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Remember last month, when you didn’t have to worry about the safety of the US nuclear arsenal? Or when you could get on a plane pretty sure you'd survive the flight?
Those were the days.
My @nytimes.com Guest Essay on DOGE, the wrecking ball crushing Americans' last remaining trust in government.
Those were the days.
My @nytimes.com Guest Essay on DOGE, the wrecking ball crushing Americans' last remaining trust in government.
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ASA membership comes with three informative e-newsletters, providing an efficient way to keep up to date on the discipline and all things ASA. Join or renew by 11:59 pm ET Feb. 27 for a chance to win one of five $100 VISA gift cards. https://bit.ly/Winter25Drive
February 23, 2025 at 5:16 PM
ASA membership comes with three informative e-newsletters, providing an efficient way to keep up to date on the discipline and all things ASA. Join or renew by 11:59 pm ET Feb. 27 for a chance to win one of five $100 VISA gift cards. https://bit.ly/Winter25Drive
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I talked to USA Today this week for an important story:
"If the data was out there and transparent, it would undermine their story," said Austin Kocher, a research professor at Syracuse University who studies immigration."
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
"If the data was out there and transparent, it would undermine their story," said Austin Kocher, a research professor at Syracuse University who studies immigration."
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
White House broadcasts immigration raids, but are arrests really up?
Despite images of a nationwide sweep, there is little evidence so far that ICE is arresting, detaining or deporting many more people than usual.
www.usatoday.com
February 22, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I talked to USA Today this week for an important story:
"If the data was out there and transparent, it would undermine their story," said Austin Kocher, a research professor at Syracuse University who studies immigration."
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
"If the data was out there and transparent, it would undermine their story," said Austin Kocher, a research professor at Syracuse University who studies immigration."
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
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New! Sociologists' election reflections as the 2nd Trump Administration took power: @daniellaurison.bsky.social, Mary Romero, @andrewjperrin.bsky.social, A. Spencer-Blume, @cecimenjivar.bsky.social, & E. Bonilla-Silva on the campaigns waged & the battles yet to come tinyurl.com/SPE-election
February 19, 2025 at 6:02 PM
New! Sociologists' election reflections as the 2nd Trump Administration took power: @daniellaurison.bsky.social, Mary Romero, @andrewjperrin.bsky.social, A. Spencer-Blume, @cecimenjivar.bsky.social, & E. Bonilla-Silva on the campaigns waged & the battles yet to come tinyurl.com/SPE-election
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Volume 68 Issue 12, November 2024
Special Issue: The Tools of Autocracy Across the World
Guest Editors: Deisy Del Real and @cecimenjivar.bsky.social
Some of the articles are available Open Access
journals.sagepub.com/toc/absb/68/12
Special Issue: The Tools of Autocracy Across the World
Guest Editors: Deisy Del Real and @cecimenjivar.bsky.social
Some of the articles are available Open Access
journals.sagepub.com/toc/absb/68/12
American Behavioral Scientist - Volume 68, Number 12, Nov 01, 2024
Table of contents for American Behavioral Scientist, 68, 12, Nov 01, 2024
journals.sagepub.com
January 20, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Volume 68 Issue 12, November 2024
Special Issue: The Tools of Autocracy Across the World
Guest Editors: Deisy Del Real and @cecimenjivar.bsky.social
Some of the articles are available Open Access
journals.sagepub.com/toc/absb/68/12
Special Issue: The Tools of Autocracy Across the World
Guest Editors: Deisy Del Real and @cecimenjivar.bsky.social
Some of the articles are available Open Access
journals.sagepub.com/toc/absb/68/12
Immigrant workers have cleaned & rebuilt after many U.S. disasters. Today, they're at work bringing L.A. out from the ashes, volunteering their labor, 12 hrs/day, cleaning streets & parks in Pasadena & building community #thankyoudaylaborers @ndlon.bsky.social
www.latimes.com/delos/story/...
www.latimes.com/delos/story/...
As fires rage, day laborers volunteer to clean up Pasadena streets
The Pasadena Community Job Center is a gathering spot for day laborers. As fires burned across the region, workers and staff launched a fire relief brigade.
www.latimes.com
January 13, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Immigrant workers have cleaned & rebuilt after many U.S. disasters. Today, they're at work bringing L.A. out from the ashes, volunteering their labor, 12 hrs/day, cleaning streets & parks in Pasadena & building community #thankyoudaylaborers @ndlon.bsky.social
www.latimes.com/delos/story/...
www.latimes.com/delos/story/...
Wonderful news!! Temporary Protected Status designations which were set to expire in the next few months: El Salvador, Venezuela, Ukraine, Sudan. This means 18 additional months of protection for roughly 850,000 people!!
What about Honduras??
What about Honduras??
January 10, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Wonderful news!! Temporary Protected Status designations which were set to expire in the next few months: El Salvador, Venezuela, Ukraine, Sudan. This means 18 additional months of protection for roughly 850,000 people!!
What about Honduras??
What about Honduras??
"Immigrants will be the ones bringing Los Angeles back from the ashes. Without them, the city will struggle to recover."
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Opinion | Who will rebuild Los Angeles? Immigrants.
And many of them will be doing it under threat of family separation.
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January 10, 2025 at 11:20 PM
"Immigrants will be the ones bringing Los Angeles back from the ashes. Without them, the city will struggle to recover."
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TPS recipients & allies are in a hunger strike in Washington DC calling on the @POTUS Biden admin. to renew TPS for El Salvador, Honduras & Nicaragua. Biden can protect these long-term residents from deportation #TPSJustice
@TPS_Alliance
@TPS_Alliance
December 20, 2024 at 9:16 PM
TPS recipients & allies are in a hunger strike in Washington DC calling on the @POTUS Biden admin. to renew TPS for El Salvador, Honduras & Nicaragua. Biden can protect these long-term residents from deportation #TPSJustice
@TPS_Alliance
@TPS_Alliance
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Well, that was… fun.
Seriously though, I am so grateful for the opportunity to have been there and to help make the case for why we should pass a path to permanent legal status rather than carry out self-destructive mass deportations.
Seriously though, I am so grateful for the opportunity to have been there and to help make the case for why we should pass a path to permanent legal status rather than carry out self-destructive mass deportations.
Tomorrow at 10:00am EST the Senate Judiciary Committee will be holding a hearing on mass deportations. I’m honored to have been invited to testify at this hearing to explain to Senators and the public the negative fiscal and economic impacts of mass deportation.
Watch it tomorrow at this link!
Watch it tomorrow at this link!
How Mass Deportations Will Separate American Families, Harm Our Armed Forces, and Devastate Our Economy | United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary
United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary
www.judiciary.senate.gov
December 10, 2024 at 6:12 PM
Well, that was… fun.
Seriously though, I am so grateful for the opportunity to have been there and to help make the case for why we should pass a path to permanent legal status rather than carry out self-destructive mass deportations.
Seriously though, I am so grateful for the opportunity to have been there and to help make the case for why we should pass a path to permanent legal status rather than carry out self-destructive mass deportations.
Important primer on expedited removal by the @immcouncil.bsky.social explaining the process by which low-level immigration officers can summarily remove certain noncitizens without a hearing.
www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/sites/defaul...
www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/sites/defaul...
www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org
December 9, 2024 at 2:05 AM
Important primer on expedited removal by the @immcouncil.bsky.social explaining the process by which low-level immigration officers can summarily remove certain noncitizens without a hearing.
www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/sites/defaul...
www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/sites/defaul...
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And the forum in which it is critically discussed by Antje Ellermann, @adamhosein.bsky.social and @cecimenjivar.bsky.social:
migrationpolicycentre.eu/the-ethics-o...
migrationpolicycentre.eu/the-ethics-o...
Unauthorized residence - Migration Policy Centre
Unauthorized residence
migrationpolicycentre.eu
December 3, 2024 at 12:29 PM
And the forum in which it is critically discussed by Antje Ellermann, @adamhosein.bsky.social and @cecimenjivar.bsky.social:
migrationpolicycentre.eu/the-ethics-o...
migrationpolicycentre.eu/the-ethics-o...
Response from Mexico's President, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, to threats of tariffs for migration control. Using US data, she shows that Mexico already has an extensive system of control in place. Also notes the gun traffic from US to Mexico behind the rise of violence in Mexico
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November 27, 2024 at 8:19 PM
Response from Mexico's President, Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, to threats of tariffs for migration control. Using US data, she shows that Mexico already has an extensive system of control in place. Also notes the gun traffic from US to Mexico behind the rise of violence in Mexico
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Immigration Reading List: Books to Broaden Your Perspective on Migration (2024)
Looking for a good book about immigration? 📚 Thanks to many reader contributions, we’ve got you covered with brand new book recommendations.
austinkocher.substack.com/p/immigratio...
Looking for a good book about immigration? 📚 Thanks to many reader contributions, we’ve got you covered with brand new book recommendations.
austinkocher.substack.com/p/immigratio...
Immigration Reading List: Books to Broaden Your Perspective on Migration (2024)
Looking for a good book about immigration? 📚 Thanks to many reader contributions, we’ve got you covered with brand new book recommendations. Plus: sign up for the new Immigration Book Club online.
austinkocher.substack.com
November 26, 2024 at 12:43 PM
Immigration Reading List: Books to Broaden Your Perspective on Migration (2024)
Looking for a good book about immigration? 📚 Thanks to many reader contributions, we’ve got you covered with brand new book recommendations.
austinkocher.substack.com/p/immigratio...
Looking for a good book about immigration? 📚 Thanks to many reader contributions, we’ve got you covered with brand new book recommendations.
austinkocher.substack.com/p/immigratio...
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NEW FROM ME:
The government will do things that hurt people.
But knowing exactly what it is doing — & therefore who’s most at risk — is at the foundation of fighting against it. Anything else is doing Trump’s job for him.
Here’s a start.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/o...
The government will do things that hurt people.
But knowing exactly what it is doing — & therefore who’s most at risk — is at the foundation of fighting against it. Anything else is doing Trump’s job for him.
Here’s a start.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/o...
Opinion | Don’t Do Trump’s Work for Him on Mass Deportations
How big will the Trump administration will go, and how quickly?
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2024 at 12:05 PM
NEW FROM ME:
The government will do things that hurt people.
But knowing exactly what it is doing — & therefore who’s most at risk — is at the foundation of fighting against it. Anything else is doing Trump’s job for him.
Here’s a start.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/o...
The government will do things that hurt people.
But knowing exactly what it is doing — & therefore who’s most at risk — is at the foundation of fighting against it. Anything else is doing Trump’s job for him.
Here’s a start.
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/o...
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I’ve been asked a few times recently, so let me say this simply: Republicans move immigration policy to the right, then Democrats normalize/systemitize those changes, laying the groundwork for Republicans to move the needle further to the right. 🔄 There is no leftward movement.
November 20, 2024 at 4:05 PM
I’ve been asked a few times recently, so let me say this simply: Republicans move immigration policy to the right, then Democrats normalize/systemitize those changes, laying the groundwork for Republicans to move the needle further to the right. 🔄 There is no leftward movement.
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LA adopts sanctuary city ordinance as Trump mass deportation plan takes shape.
The Los Angeles City Council adopted a "sanctuary city" ordinance to limit cooperation with federal immigration officials.
www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/v...
The Los Angeles City Council adopted a "sanctuary city" ordinance to limit cooperation with federal immigration officials.
www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/v...
LA adopts sanctuary city ordinance as Trump mass deportation plan takes shape
The Los Angeles City Council adopted a "sanctuary city" ordinance to limit cooperation with federal immigration officials, a day after President-elect Donald Trump signaled he would use military asset...
www.cbsnews.com
November 20, 2024 at 4:09 AM
LA adopts sanctuary city ordinance as Trump mass deportation plan takes shape.
The Los Angeles City Council adopted a "sanctuary city" ordinance to limit cooperation with federal immigration officials.
www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/v...
The Los Angeles City Council adopted a "sanctuary city" ordinance to limit cooperation with federal immigration officials.
www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/v...
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ABS Board Member and guest co-editor of the November 2024 double issue, The Tools of Autocracy Worldwide, @cecimenjivar.bsky.social, discussed autocracy in an interview in September 2024.
Q&A: Cecilia Menjívar on authoritarian tactics in the 2024 U.S. presidential campaign
The UCLA sociologist discusses how to think critically about the threat of autocracy.
newsroom.ucla.edu
November 19, 2024 at 2:03 AM
ABS Board Member and guest co-editor of the November 2024 double issue, The Tools of Autocracy Worldwide, @cecimenjivar.bsky.social, discussed autocracy in an interview in September 2024.
Today we commemorate the 35th anniversary of the assassination of six Jesuit priests and their two lay workers at the Catholic University (UCA) in El Salvador. They were martyred for speaking on behalf of the poor and oppressed.
November 17, 2024 at 7:27 AM
Today we commemorate the 35th anniversary of the assassination of six Jesuit priests and their two lay workers at the Catholic University (UCA) in El Salvador. They were martyred for speaking on behalf of the poor and oppressed.
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The Biden administration massively expanded the electronic monitoring of immigrants, restricted access to asylum, left 287(g) in place, and increased deportations. So yes, the Trump administration does have “what they need” to carry out mass deportations.
November 13, 2024 at 8:39 PM
The Biden administration massively expanded the electronic monitoring of immigrants, restricted access to asylum, left 287(g) in place, and increased deportations. So yes, the Trump administration does have “what they need” to carry out mass deportations.
The 2024 Nobel in Economics: "The laureates have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a much deeper understanding of why countries fail or succeed.” Sociologists: 🙄 The Nobel Prize in Economics should go to sociologists at least once in a while!!
November 15, 2024 at 5:12 AM
The 2024 Nobel in Economics: "The laureates have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a much deeper understanding of why countries fail or succeed.” Sociologists: 🙄 The Nobel Prize in Economics should go to sociologists at least once in a while!!