Episodi

  • Immigration to the DMV after the COVID-19 Pandemic

    Immigration to the DMV after the COVID-19 Pandemic
    Nov 19 2025
    Presentation at the 2025 AU Public Anthropology Conference

    Authors: Anjini Patel, Hannah Wingo, Amanda Vincent, Quinn Pierson, Olivia Salamone, Tabby Ford, Katheryn Olmos, Caryalyn Jean, Dr. Ernesto Castaneda.
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    1 ora
  • The Exclusion of LGBT+ Refugees in Kenya' Shikira Plan

    The Exclusion of LGBT+ Refugees in Kenya' Shikira Plan
    Nov 19 2025
    Immigration Lab member Chris Belden discusses the exclusion of LGBT+ refugees in Kenya's Shikira Plan.
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    8 min
  • Policy Shifts and the Power of Journalism

    Policy Shifts and the Power of Journalism
    Nov 11 2025
    CNN correspondent Priscilla Álvarez visits to discuss how recent immigration policy shifts impact people, communities, and international relations. She shares what it's like reporting on immigration today and talks about the role of journalists in promoting a fact-based narrative around immigration.
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    54 min
  • Understanding Immigration

    Understanding Immigration
    Nov 5 2025
    Dr. Ernesto Castañeda continues the conversation of Immigration Realities, while addressing misconceptions surrounding migration trends, lifestyles, and integration. His talk is followed by a Q & A with members of the American University community.
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    1 ora e 32 min
  • Criminalized by Design: How U.S. Immigration Policy Hurts Families, Not Crime Rates

    Criminalized by Design: How U.S. Immigration Policy Hurts Families, Not Crime Rates
    May 23 2025
    “Criminalized by Design: How U.S. Immigration Policy Hurts Families, Not Crime Rates”
    Immigration Congressional Policy Brief May 21, 2025
    Dirksen Senate Office Building

    1) Charis Kubrin, UCI Criminology, Law & Society, “The Myth of the Criminal Immigrant: How Policy Based on Fear Fails Us All”
    Immigration-related policies founded on an assumption of widespread immigrant criminality or claims of a strong immigration-crime link are likely to be ineffective at reducing crime, and can lead to significant collateral consequences for individuals, families and communities.

    2) Irene Vega, UCI Sociology, “Who Enforces, and Why? Rethinking Immigration Agents, Training, and Oversight”
    The major lesson of my work is that we need major structural changes in the U.S. immigration system, including: decoupling of immigration and criminal law, divesting from for-profit prisons and other corporations that shape immigration enforcement policy, and a fundamental rethinking of how we hire and train immigration agents.

    3) Beth Baker, UCDC Anthropology, “The Hidden Costs of Mass Deportation”
    Trump is promising to deport millions of people with long-standing ties to US society. The economic costs are enormous: immigration enforcement, detention, and deportation constitute the largest single federal law enforcement cost to the nation. The human costs are even more significant.

    4) Ernesto Castaneda, American University, CLALS, “The Mental Health Toll of Immigration Enforcement”
    Many immigrants face significant trauma in their countries of origin and immigration law enforcement creates new stressors that exacerbate PTSD, depression, and anxiety. These conditions can be minimized through programs that aid immigrant integration and mental health.

    Moderated and organized by: Tanya Golash-Boza, Director, University of California, DC Center
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    53 min
  • The Effects of the Latest Immigration Policies

    The Effects of the Latest Immigration Policies
    May 20 2025
    In this episode, we listen to "Immigration In Focus: Insights from Policy Experts," an event that took place at American University on Thursday, April 24; though the negative effects of punitive immigration policies are always evergreen. This episode pairs well with this blogpost https://theimmigrationlab.org/blog/f/campaigning-against-immigrants-is-often-a-losing-proposition

    Speakers include:
    Amy Dacey, Director, AU’s Sine Institute of Policy & Politics

    Jayesh Rathod, Director, Immigrant Justice Clinic in AU’s Washington College of Law Ernesto Castañeda, Director, AU’s Center for Latin American and Latino Studies, and the Immigration Lab
    Alex Araya, Staff Attorney, Detained Adult Program, Amica Center for Immigrant Rights

    Moderate by Julia Manchester from The Hill

    Episode edited by Noah Green
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    55 min
  • Asylum Seekers and New Arrivals in DC and NYC

    Asylum Seekers and New Arrivals in DC and NYC
    Apr 22 2025
    In this podcast, the Immigration Lab researchers discuss some of the results of ongoing research including over 200 in-depth interviews with new arrivals, including immigrants, asylum seekers, people with TPS, parole, and other humanitarian permits in the Washington, DC metropolitan area and New York City from Ecuador, Venezuela, El Salvador, Mexico, and Ukraine.
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    23 min
  • The First 100 Days Immigration Policy

    The First 100 Days Immigration Policy
    Apr 9 2025
    This podcast is a recording of a live immigration policy panel that took place at American University on April 4, 2025. The first in a series of 2 podcasts. Interviewer Todd Zwillich, co-host of 1A on WAMU, DC's NPR station. Speakers include Kathleen Bush-Joseph, Migration Policy Institute; Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, American Immigration Council; and Ernesto Castaneda, The Immigration Lab, discuss the immigration policies of the current administration. Co-organized by The Center of Latin American and Latino Studies, The Immigration Lab, the Sine Institute, and the Environment, Development, and Health Department of the School of International Service at American University.
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    1 ora e 23 min