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“Divided by the Wall offers a portrait of political activism that is remarkably attuned to the interior lives of its subjects and the complexities of human motivation. […] It is one of the most sensitive accounts of the social roots of activism available in sociology.” -Prof. Tom Medvetz
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ABOUT
I am an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. I study the relationship between everyday political behavior and larger societal structures. I am the author of the 2020 book, Divided By the Wall, an ethnographic study of how and why ordinary Americans participate in immigration politics at the U.S.-Mexico border. More recently, I have also written about the relationship between guns and migration politics in the U.S., the Canadian system of private refugee sponsorship, as well as voting behavior among second-generation and new Canadians.
Learn MoreNational Geographic’s Border Wars and the Naturalization of Border Militarization
The Temporary Staffing Agency in the Labor Market.
Nativist activism among two border watch groups in southern Arizona
Theorizing Immigration Politics in Arizona
