Two connected questions—why people flee threats through migration, and how states meet those migrants with enforcement. Alongside them, a second program on religious and civic change in Latin America.
Why and how people migrate in response to threats to their lives and livelihoods—and what those movements mean for individuals, families, and communities. Guatemala as a critical case, and the pre- and post-migration experience of vulnerable migrants in Costa Rica.
How states answer migration through enforcement, and how well administrative statistics capture what is actually happening. Border apprehension counts, El Salvador’s state of exception, asylum adjudication, and the machinery of federal prosecution.
A second research program on how large-scale social change—especially religious change—is reshaping social norms and political behavior in Latin America. Two decades of survey data across seventeen countries, evangelical growth and democratic attitudes, and the discipline’s own engagement with religion.