The Social Science Matrix @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social is hiring a Researcher/Program Manager in Finance and Democracy: careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psc/ucb/EMPL...

Please help us congratulate our recent award-winning authors! 👏 🎉 @stephcanizales.bsky.social @irisdunkle.bsky.social, @ievajusionyte.bsky.social, @bshestakofsky.bsky.social

Congratulations on your pub day, Stephanie! Proud to have published it.

My book, Everyday Futures: Language as Survival for Indigenous Youth in Diaspora, coauthored with Brendan H. O'Connor (ASU), is out today with Stanford Press. Consider getting a copy! www.sup.org/books/sociol...

Stephanie Canizales, UC Berkeley, is the winner of the Leogrande Prize from the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies & the School of Public Affairs at American University for "Sin Padres, Ni Papeles: California University Press 2024. The award recognizes important work with a $1,000 prize

Trump has sent hundreds of people to El Salvador's CECOT for indefinite detention, without charge, trial or sentence. DHS has dismissed dozens of their immigration cases in absentia: "essentially rid itself of its opposing party," an immigration judge wrote recently: www.huffpost.com/entry/cecot-...

reminder that gavin newsom is a genuinely terrifying person who routinely allows his hatred for homeless people to propel him into public acts of cruelty that no regular person would ever be associated with in broad daylight. you do not have to hand it to that man!

Say nothing

From Herbert Gans’ sociological legacy, to @laurieessig.bsky.social on masculinity and authoritarianism, @stephcanizales.bsky.social on undocumented youth, and Craig Considine & @landonschnabel.bsky.social on Pope Francis' impact. Read TSP's Clippings of Soc in the news here: 🔗 bit.ly/3EPBq2b 🔗

We're live! Check out cclwfu.org to learn more about the Comunidades Confined Lab. Read about the work, meet the team, hear from participants, & learn abt the Coalition! We'd love to expand the Coalition & connect w/ participants-contact us through the site if you'd like to connect! #SocAF #SocSky

Shannon Gleeson reviews @stephcanizales.bsky.social 's Sin Padres, Ni Papeles, a powerful look at unaccompanied Central American youth in the U.S. It challenges immigrant incorporation theories & explores their struggles beyond legal status—work, school, family, & survival. Review: buff.ly/0XRlhIJ

My latest piece for @teenvogue.com delves into the horrific story of popular skincare ingredient Retin-A. Before Retin-A was approved by the FDA in 1971, it had been tested on hundreds of incarcerated Black people in Philadelphia, without their informed consent. The survivors still bear the scars.

**Major** update to this story, and something I'll continue reporting on through the weekend: 🚨 The new acting IRS commissioner has indicated she plans to comply with DHS's request for the addresses of 700,000 suspected undocumented immigrants. 🚨 www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

A friendly reminder that about half of all US children rely on Medicaid for healthcare. And about 40% of all births are covered by Medicaid. Where’s that culture of life we were hearing about? #medicaid www.protectourcare.org/fact-sheet-m...

The strategic chaos playbook: 1. Create a moral panic 2. Blame it on a target group 3. Commence monitoring 4. Deploy droves of security apparatuses 5. $ Demand spikes for containment 6. Imprisonment through prisons & detention

ICYMI: "Caught in the Dragnet: How Punitive Immigration Laws Harm Community Helpers" (2023) by @stephcanizales.bsky.social explores how spillover effects impact the lawyers, doctors, social workers, & advocates who work w/ non-citizens, incl. unaccompanied minors, in the U.S. tinyurl.com/FEADragnet

Elated to share that the dream team @stephcanizales.bsky.social, @drmirianma.bsky.social, Silvia Rodriguez Vega and I are getting ~$1.6 million from UCOP MRPI for our project Reimagining Refuge: California for Just Migrant Futures. Stay tuned for seed grants to CA scholars, artists, and activists!

Happy publication day to Ideas on Fire author @stephcanizales.bsky.social! Her new book Sin Padres, Ni Papeles: The Life and Labor of Unaccompanied Youth in the US is out now from @ucpress.bsky.social. A must-read for August! https://buff.ly/3LqQNxU #IoFAuthors

July 1, 2024 // reintroductions are in order. Hi, I’m Steph Canizales, Assistant Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley and Faculty Director of the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative. Good to see you again 🫂💖 www.stephaniecanizales.com