Sociology professor and (co)author of The Refugee System (2023); Refuge beyond Reach (2019); Culling the Masses (2014); Nation of Emigrants (2009).
Univ. of California San Diego
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I am honoured that Transnational Asylum has won the Australia and New Zealand International Society for International Law (ANZSIL) Book Prize 2026
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My book review of "Transnational Asylum: Toward a Principled Framework" by @NDFTan
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latest CCIS working paper from Neil Gong and colleagues is an ethnographic account of San Diego immigration court in recent months
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Our article on "Refugee Systems" in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Migration Studies is now online at doi.org/10.1093/9780...
This is such an important book to understand how the early months of refugee resettlement in the US unfold in practice.
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"Mapping the Global North bias in forced migration studies: three decades of publication and citation trends."
Open access at academic.oup.com/jrs/advance…
my review recommending Migration Governance in North America: Policy, Politics, and Community, edited by Kiran Banerjee & Craig Damian Smith
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opening for Research & Advocacy Fellow,
Migration & Human Rights Program,
Cornell Law School.
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David FitzGerald retweeted
To celebrate the upcoming release of my book, and to support emerging scholars, I'd like to buy and mail copies to ten graduate students.
If you’re a grad student who’d like a copy, reply or DM me!
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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.m…
"The more unpalatable a thing, the more governments shield it from scrutiny. They do so in the name of security and privacy."
I wrote this in 2023 for @BylineTimes in the UK
Of Barges and Banishments: What the Bibby Stockholm Reveals About Our Dark History
bylinetimes.com/2023/10/17/o…
My piece in Foreign Affairs on forcing migrants to third countries is available open access
.@FitzGeraldUCSD explains why the Trump administration is deporting immigrants to third countries, including El Salvador and South Sudan—and argues that detaining and processing people offshore should be considered “forms of disappearance.”
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Read how the U.S. externalized its borders using health controls beginning in the 1800s, laying the groundwork for controls that were repurposed during the Covid-19 and Title 42 era to keep out asylum seekers. Open access in Migration Studies.
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David FitzGerald retweeted
🌎 New #RegionalReport from the MEMO project investigates migr. complexity in the Americas. Authors @cmasfl and Isabel Gil consider how diverse origins and drivers (economics, violence and policy changes) lead to varied movement patterns and destinations. torontomu.ca/content/dam/mem…
2-yr postdoc position at Johns Hopkins in global politics of mobility and American world power. Application due Feb 1 apply.interfolio.com/157861
David FitzGerald retweeted
🗣️Call for Papers Special Issue: Who is a Refugee in the 21st Century? With @UlrikeBialas (@maxplanckpress ),
@FitzGeraldUCSD (@UCSanDiego), Aryan Karimi(@UBC)
⚠️Deadline for abstracts: March 31st
🧐More info: imiscoe.org/news-and-blog/ne…
Sharing my new open-access article on "The limits and possibilities of segmented assimilation theory" in @ERSjournal.
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Roth, Wendy D. 2025. “Segmented assimilation within and without: within nationality groups and without racial incorporation.” Ethnic and Racial Studies doi.org/10.1080/01419870.202…
Portes, Alejandro and Min Zhou. 2025. “Segmented assimilation: some reflections on a three-decade concept.” Ethnic and Racial Studies doi.org/10.1080/01419870.202…