I am flummoxed. It’s election season here in the United States, and I asked the two candidates running for US congress in my home district for their position on immigration. I got my answers….sort of. Thanks to Luis Melodelgado for the Spanish language version.
Read MoreA growing number of economic development programs worldwide provide cash specifically to women in poor communities. Giving women access to money empowers them, the theory goes.
Do they really work?
Read MoreI wrote this column for the Chatham County Line in response to the removal of domestic violence and gang rule as grounds for seeking refugee status in the United States. Thank you to Luis Melodelgado for the translation into Spanish…
Read MorePhotos from the election in Calakmul, Campeche. I joined the Red Universitaria y Ciudadana por la Democracia that fielded more than 300 electoral observers throughout the country, one of the largest delegations in this year's election. Mil gracias al personal de IEEC en Xpujil quienes siempre me atendieron con cortesía y respeto.
Read MoreThis op-ed appeared in The News and Observer, the paper of record for North Carolina's state capital in Raleigh.
Read MoreThis post explores how international travel has become de rigueur in some social circles even as the United States incarcerates children removed from their immigrant parents in “tent cities.”
Read MoreBen successfully completed his Master’s in Anthropology with his paper that examines how men employ lies, jokes, and jokes about lies to create the ties through which they collectively manage fish stock.
Read MoreListening to news about “chain migration,” I was confused. I could not tell how many people come to the United States through chain migration. If chain migration is a problem, how big or small a problem is it? This article digs into some numbers.
Read MoreRecent events in Chatham County, North Carolina highlight the challenges to getting local development right. Working on improving your Spanish? Read Luis Melodelgado's translation.
Read MoreAfter spending one week with NCSU students supporting CARA's pro bono legal work processing asylum cases at an ICE family detention center, I found it hard to understand why we have the system we do.
Image courtesy of https://www.facebook.com/EndFamilyDetention/?ref=br_rs
Read MoreBuilding a class around Wikipedia turned out to be educational for me and my students in ways I did not foresee. Here's my post on the WikiEdu blog that explains how.
Read MoreIn the latest issue of the Chatham County Line, I explore this question. The article appears in English and Spanish. Many thanks to Luis Melodelgado for the translation!
Read MoreMichael successfully completed his Master's in Anthropology this December by piloting a methods track that allows our students to create a portfolio of research skills.
Read MoreLooking into the extensive literature on the topic that fascinated her, she felt her own ideas shrink in comparison. She wondered whether her ideas were worthwhile...
Read MoreIdeas of “wealthy” and “poor” are comparative. The definition of each depends on the other, such that ...
Read MoreA few weeks ago, NCSU's Genetic Engineering and Society Center launched the AAGES history project. NPR reporter Dan Charles gave the keynote. The most interesting part of Charles' campus visit for me came earlier in the day when...
Read MoreA great day celebrating Hispanic Heritage...
Read MoreThe class walks students through research on a migration-related topic of their choosing. Students then use that research to write up Wikipedia...
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