D N Obinna
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 6496 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | D N Obinna |
| NOMBRES | D N |
| APELLIDO | Obinna |
| FIRMA | OBINNA D N |
| AFILIACIONES | Mount St. Mary's University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1915-8786 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 73 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2015 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Visas, surveillance and revocation
In a climate of increased enforcement, international students have often found their visas revoked — without notification or warning. Foregrounded by the expansion of a vast surveillance infrastructure, education in the United States intersects with immigration enforcement. Focusing on the Student Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) – operated by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in conjunction with American higher education i…
Barriers to entry
Death in the Borderlands
Border‐related deaths have often been linked to immigration enforcement. Since the 1990s, the US government has used “prevention through deterrence” policies which have resulted in a militarization of the border and heightened the risks of unauthorized entry. By increasing border barriers, enforcement has re‐routed migration to remote parts of the Sonoran Desert, the Rio Grande Valley and the Del Rio sectors. Changes to migration traffic have exp…
Sister soldiers
Camino de la Muerte
As the only land bridge connecting South and North America, the Darién Gap has become one of the most widely used migration paths in the Americas. It is also one of the deadliest. Fleeing poverty, economic, political and social instability, migrants on this trek come from different countries around the world. Venturing through over 60 miles of dense rainforest, steep mountains and swamps, this manuscript examines the growing importance of the Dar…
Employment‐based visas
Economic migrants play an important role in the fiscal stability of the United States. Focusing on economic‐based (EB) green cards, our work presents an incongruence between labour demands of the American economy and the supply of highly skilled economic migrants. Using data from the United States Department of Justice and the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) from 1971 to 2000 as well as data from the 1990 to 2022 Visa Bulletins, we s…
Citizenship and the American state
Providing a compelling analysis of race, ethnicity, and culture, this manuscript unpacks the whiteness as citizenship model in the American context. This paper argues that citizenship rights have historically been dispensed to mean ‘whiteness’. That is, whiteness has been the definition of the ‘real American’ where racialized others are kept outside of the full rights and privileges of citizenship. Examining instances where individuals challenged…
A Sense of Place
Ethnogenesis is a powerful mechanism which outlines how ethnic groups are formed. It is a complex process which often involves factors such as migration, cultural exchanges, intermarriage as well as religion. Ethnogenesis is also described as the historical and contemporary emergence of a group of people who define themselves in relation to a common socio-cultural and historical heritage. Focusing on African American migration during the Great Mi…
“Alone in a Crowd
Indigenous migrants in American custody often speak neither English nor Spanish. This leaves them at risk for family separation, deportation and due process violations. In this article, I discuss the challenges which indigenous migrants face in American immigration. Examining linguistic variations, this manuscript illustrates that American immigration policies have not adjusted to the linguistic diversity at the border—or in the immigration court…
Violence Across Borders
The ongoing conflict in Venezuela has created significant risks for women and girls. Conflict affected populations often face higher levels of vulnerability and risks of gender-based violence (GBV) at home, in transit and at destination countries. Venezuelan women face GBV at all stages of their journey. Due to their often-irregular or undocumented status in host countries, many women lack legal access to healthcare and work which leaves them vul…
Title 42 and the power to exclude
Debates to “secure the border” have often dominated immigration legislation. Since the COVID‐19 pandemic began, this rhetoric has intensified with the use of the Title 42 program to “expel” asylum seekers without hearing the merits of their case. This article outlines how the Title 42 policy has exacerbated dangerous border crossings while advancing discriminatory policies which disproportionately affect non‐White asylum seekers. Using the framew…
Warring” Ideals
Confronting Disparities
The COVID-19 (coronavirus disease–2019) pandemic has exposed long-standing inequalities in U.S. health care. Historically, racial and ethnic minorities have been the most likely to suffer from inadequate health care access and insurance coverage. With the spread of COVID-19, these disparities have dramatically increased. Focusing on native and foreign-born racial/ethnic minorities, this article discusses how entrenched health inequities and struc…
Wait-times, visa queues and uncertainty
Legal permanent residency (LPR) removes the immediate threat of deportation and allows a permanent foothold in America. Yet despite its protections, LPR is an incredibly difficult status to achieve for legal immigrants who are not immediate relatives (spouses, parents or minor children) of American citizens. Within a climate of increased enforcement, immigrants are urged to migrate using legal channels. Yet these channels are often oversubscribed…
Essential and undervalued
This manuscript asserts that decades of racism and discrimination have isolated communities of color and made them particularly vulnerable to the COVID-19 virus. As many African American women deal with unemployment or continue to work as 'essential workers', the intersectionality framework sheds light on the continued legacies of racism and sexism. It asserts that targeted policy interventions are needed to mitigate the effects of COVID-19 and l…
Seeking Sanctuary
This article identifies the way spaces of violence operate within gendered hierarchies in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. As migration accelerates, gender-related differences become evident. Strong push factors underlined by patriarchal power systems and hypermasculine spaces have normalized violence against women. Using data from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), and local data from …
Transiciones e Incertidumbres
Geographic and Spatial Assimilation of Immigrants from Central America's Northern Triangle
With declines in migration from Mexico, the countries of the Northern Triangle of Central America ( NTCA ) – El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala – are now responsible for some of the largest increases in the population density of Latinos in the United States. Using data from the 5‐year estimates of the 2016 American Community Survey and the Atlas of Rural and Small‐Town America, this article provides a spatial framework for settlement among NTCA …
Violent Crime and Immigrant Removals
This research describes and explains changes in non-citizen deportations from the United States between 1908 and 1986. Using data from historical immigration yearbooks, we first document and quantify the primary reasons given for removing immigrants from U.S. soil. A key finding is that perceived dispositional defects and threatening behavior (e.g., criminal behavior, mental or physical defects) accounted for a large proportion of deportations in…
Uncertain aspirations
Latinos are one of the fastest growing and most racially diverse students in American schools. Driven by immigration, they account for more than 24% of the kindergarten to high school population. Despite their numbers, the achievement gap between Latinos and their non-Latino peers remains wide since they have the highest rate of dropout. Using data from the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009, we find that Latino students who attend more than …
Lessons in Democracy
Taking an uncompromising stance on immigration enforcement, the Trump administration has been sharply criticized for its policies and racially coded rhetoric of immigrants as criminals or undesirables. Despite this criticism, the administration's policies fall in line with historically widespread, exclusionary, nativist and xenophobic attitudes towards immigrants. Much of the American immigrant story has been a tortuous struggle for equality, int…
Ethnicity, reception and the growth of American immigration
Deportation has always been a feature of the American political, social and economic discourse. A twin effect of immigration, deportation concerns who is granted the right to stay and who is removed from the country. Amid the growing debate on reform, this essay casts light on the changing nature of deportation law during the last century. Paying attention to the reception which immigrants receive and the perceptions of threat and economic compet…
A study of academic performance by immigrant generation with an emphasis on the black immigrant experience
Purpose – Instead of identifying them as a single monolithic group, the purpose of this paper is to evaluate whether the academic performance of black immigrants differs from African Americans as well as Asian and Hispanic students of comparable immigrant generation. By identifying how well black immigrant students perform on standardized tests, grade point averages (GPA) and college enrollment, this study proposes a more comprehensive look into …
Status Attainment
Status attainment research begun by sociologists in the United States more than three decades ago laid the foundation for the study of the transmission of socioeconomic advantage from one generation to the next (also known as intergenerational social mobility). Status attainment research seeks to understand how characteristics of an individual's family (also called socioeconomic origins) relate to their educational attainment and occupational sta…
Seeking Sanctuary
This article identifies the way spaces of violence operate within gendered hierarchies in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. As migration accelerates, gender-related differences become evident. Strong push factors underlined by patriarchal power systems and hypermasculine spaces have normalized violence against women. Using data from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), and local data from …
Essential and undervalued
This manuscript asserts that decades of racism and discrimination have isolated communities of color and made them particularly vulnerable to the COVID-19 virus. As many African American women deal with unemployment or continue to work as 'essential workers', the intersectionality framework sheds light on the continued legacies of racism and sexism. It asserts that targeted policy interventions are needed to mitigate the effects of COVID-19 and l…
Geographic and Spatial Assimilation of Immigrants from Central America's Northern Triangle
With declines in migration from Mexico, the countries of the Northern Triangle of Central America ( NTCA ) – El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala – are now responsible for some of the largest increases in the population density of Latinos in the United States. Using data from the 5‐year estimates of the 2016 American Community Survey and the Atlas of Rural and Small‐Town America, this article provides a spatial framework for settlement among NTCA …
Ethnicity, reception and the growth of American immigration
Deportation has always been a feature of the American political, social and economic discourse. A twin effect of immigration, deportation concerns who is granted the right to stay and who is removed from the country. Amid the growing debate on reform, this essay casts light on the changing nature of deportation law during the last century. Paying attention to the reception which immigrants receive and the perceptions of threat and economic compet…
Transiciones e Incertidumbres
Title 42 and the power to exclude
Debates to “secure the border” have often dominated immigration legislation. Since the COVID‐19 pandemic began, this rhetoric has intensified with the use of the Title 42 program to “expel” asylum seekers without hearing the merits of their case. This article outlines how the Title 42 policy has exacerbated dangerous border crossings while advancing discriminatory policies which disproportionately affect non‐White asylum seekers. Using the framew…
Warring” Ideals
Lessons in Democracy
Taking an uncompromising stance on immigration enforcement, the Trump administration has been sharply criticized for its policies and racially coded rhetoric of immigrants as criminals or undesirables. Despite this criticism, the administration's policies fall in line with historically widespread, exclusionary, nativist and xenophobic attitudes towards immigrants. Much of the American immigrant story has been a tortuous struggle for equality, int…
Citizenship and the American state
Providing a compelling analysis of race, ethnicity, and culture, this manuscript unpacks the whiteness as citizenship model in the American context. This paper argues that citizenship rights have historically been dispensed to mean ‘whiteness’. That is, whiteness has been the definition of the ‘real American’ where racialized others are kept outside of the full rights and privileges of citizenship. Examining instances where individuals challenged…
Sister soldiers
Employment‐based visas
Economic migrants play an important role in the fiscal stability of the United States. Focusing on economic‐based (EB) green cards, our work presents an incongruence between labour demands of the American economy and the supply of highly skilled economic migrants. Using data from the United States Department of Justice and the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) from 1971 to 2000 as well as data from the 1990 to 2022 Visa Bulletins, we s…
A Sense of Place
Ethnogenesis is a powerful mechanism which outlines how ethnic groups are formed. It is a complex process which often involves factors such as migration, cultural exchanges, intermarriage as well as religion. Ethnogenesis is also described as the historical and contemporary emergence of a group of people who define themselves in relation to a common socio-cultural and historical heritage. Focusing on African American migration during the Great Mi…
Violence Across Borders
The ongoing conflict in Venezuela has created significant risks for women and girls. Conflict affected populations often face higher levels of vulnerability and risks of gender-based violence (GBV) at home, in transit and at destination countries. Venezuelan women face GBV at all stages of their journey. Due to their often-irregular or undocumented status in host countries, many women lack legal access to healthcare and work which leaves them vul…
Uncertain aspirations
Latinos are one of the fastest growing and most racially diverse students in American schools. Driven by immigration, they account for more than 24% of the kindergarten to high school population. Despite their numbers, the achievement gap between Latinos and their non-Latino peers remains wide since they have the highest rate of dropout. Using data from the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009, we find that Latino students who attend more than …
Status Attainment
Status attainment research begun by sociologists in the United States more than three decades ago laid the foundation for the study of the transmission of socioeconomic advantage from one generation to the next (also known as intergenerational social mobility). Status attainment research seeks to understand how characteristics of an individual's family (also called socioeconomic origins) relate to their educational attainment and occupational sta…
A study of academic performance by immigrant generation with an emphasis on the black immigrant experience
Purpose – Instead of identifying them as a single monolithic group, the purpose of this paper is to evaluate whether the academic performance of black immigrants differs from African Americans as well as Asian and Hispanic students of comparable immigrant generation. By identifying how well black immigrant students perform on standardized tests, grade point averages (GPA) and college enrollment, this study proposes a more comprehensive look into …
Violent Crime and Immigrant Removals
This research describes and explains changes in non-citizen deportations from the United States between 1908 and 1986. Using data from historical immigration yearbooks, we first document and quantify the primary reasons given for removing immigrants from U.S. soil. A key finding is that perceived dispositional defects and threatening behavior (e.g., criminal behavior, mental or physical defects) accounted for a large proportion of deportations in…
Uncertain aspirations
Latinos are one of the fastest growing and most racially diverse students in American schools. Driven by immigration, they account for more than 24% of the kindergarten to high school population. Despite their numbers, the achievement gap between Latinos and their non-Latino peers remains wide since they have the highest rate of dropout. Using data from the High School Longitudinal Study of 2009, we find that Latino students who attend more than …
Lessons in Democracy
Taking an uncompromising stance on immigration enforcement, the Trump administration has been sharply criticized for its policies and racially coded rhetoric of immigrants as criminals or undesirables. Despite this criticism, the administration's policies fall in line with historically widespread, exclusionary, nativist and xenophobic attitudes towards immigrants. Much of the American immigrant story has been a tortuous struggle for equality, int…
Ethnicity, reception and the growth of American immigration
Deportation has always been a feature of the American political, social and economic discourse. A twin effect of immigration, deportation concerns who is granted the right to stay and who is removed from the country. Amid the growing debate on reform, this essay casts light on the changing nature of deportation law during the last century. Paying attention to the reception which immigrants receive and the perceptions of threat and economic compet…
Transiciones e Incertidumbres
Geographic and Spatial Assimilation of Immigrants from Central America's Northern Triangle
With declines in migration from Mexico, the countries of the Northern Triangle of Central America ( NTCA ) – El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala – are now responsible for some of the largest increases in the population density of Latinos in the United States. Using data from the 5‐year estimates of the 2016 American Community Survey and the Atlas of Rural and Small‐Town America, this article provides a spatial framework for settlement among NTCA …
Wait-times, visa queues and uncertainty
Legal permanent residency (LPR) removes the immediate threat of deportation and allows a permanent foothold in America. Yet despite its protections, LPR is an incredibly difficult status to achieve for legal immigrants who are not immediate relatives (spouses, parents or minor children) of American citizens. Within a climate of increased enforcement, immigrants are urged to migrate using legal channels. Yet these channels are often oversubscribed…
Essential and undervalued
This manuscript asserts that decades of racism and discrimination have isolated communities of color and made them particularly vulnerable to the COVID-19 virus. As many African American women deal with unemployment or continue to work as 'essential workers', the intersectionality framework sheds light on the continued legacies of racism and sexism. It asserts that targeted policy interventions are needed to mitigate the effects of COVID-19 and l…
Seeking Sanctuary
This article identifies the way spaces of violence operate within gendered hierarchies in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. As migration accelerates, gender-related differences become evident. Strong push factors underlined by patriarchal power systems and hypermasculine spaces have normalized violence against women. Using data from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), and local data from …
Confronting Disparities
The COVID-19 (coronavirus disease–2019) pandemic has exposed long-standing inequalities in U.S. health care. Historically, racial and ethnic minorities have been the most likely to suffer from inadequate health care access and insurance coverage. With the spread of COVID-19, these disparities have dramatically increased. Focusing on native and foreign-born racial/ethnic minorities, this article discusses how entrenched health inequities and struc…
Warring” Ideals
“Alone in a Crowd
Indigenous migrants in American custody often speak neither English nor Spanish. This leaves them at risk for family separation, deportation and due process violations. In this article, I discuss the challenges which indigenous migrants face in American immigration. Examining linguistic variations, this manuscript illustrates that American immigration policies have not adjusted to the linguistic diversity at the border—or in the immigration court…
Violence Across Borders
The ongoing conflict in Venezuela has created significant risks for women and girls. Conflict affected populations often face higher levels of vulnerability and risks of gender-based violence (GBV) at home, in transit and at destination countries. Venezuelan women face GBV at all stages of their journey. Due to their often-irregular or undocumented status in host countries, many women lack legal access to healthcare and work which leaves them vul…
Title 42 and the power to exclude
Debates to “secure the border” have often dominated immigration legislation. Since the COVID‐19 pandemic began, this rhetoric has intensified with the use of the Title 42 program to “expel” asylum seekers without hearing the merits of their case. This article outlines how the Title 42 policy has exacerbated dangerous border crossings while advancing discriminatory policies which disproportionately affect non‐White asylum seekers. Using the framew…
Camino de la Muerte
As the only land bridge connecting South and North America, the Darién Gap has become one of the most widely used migration paths in the Americas. It is also one of the deadliest. Fleeing poverty, economic, political and social instability, migrants on this trek come from different countries around the world. Venturing through over 60 miles of dense rainforest, steep mountains and swamps, this manuscript examines the growing importance of the Dar…
Employment‐based visas
Economic migrants play an important role in the fiscal stability of the United States. Focusing on economic‐based (EB) green cards, our work presents an incongruence between labour demands of the American economy and the supply of highly skilled economic migrants. Using data from the United States Department of Justice and the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) from 1971 to 2000 as well as data from the 1990 to 2022 Visa Bulletins, we s…
Citizenship and the American state
Providing a compelling analysis of race, ethnicity, and culture, this manuscript unpacks the whiteness as citizenship model in the American context. This paper argues that citizenship rights have historically been dispensed to mean ‘whiteness’. That is, whiteness has been the definition of the ‘real American’ where racialized others are kept outside of the full rights and privileges of citizenship. Examining instances where individuals challenged…
A Sense of Place
Ethnogenesis is a powerful mechanism which outlines how ethnic groups are formed. It is a complex process which often involves factors such as migration, cultural exchanges, intermarriage as well as religion. Ethnogenesis is also described as the historical and contemporary emergence of a group of people who define themselves in relation to a common socio-cultural and historical heritage. Focusing on African American migration during the Great Mi…
Barriers to entry
Death in the Borderlands
Border‐related deaths have often been linked to immigration enforcement. Since the 1990s, the US government has used “prevention through deterrence” policies which have resulted in a militarization of the border and heightened the risks of unauthorized entry. By increasing border barriers, enforcement has re‐routed migration to remote parts of the Sonoran Desert, the Rio Grande Valley and the Del Rio sectors. Changes to migration traffic have exp…
Sister soldiers
Visas, surveillance and revocation
In a climate of increased enforcement, international students have often found their visas revoked — without notification or warning. Foregrounded by the expansion of a vast surveillance infrastructure, education in the United States intersects with immigration enforcement. Focusing on the Student Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) – operated by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in conjunction with American higher education i…
Sociology (18 obras) · Political science (17 obras) · Immigration (13 obras) · Law (13 obras) · Law (11 obras) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (10 obras) · Gender Studies (9 obras) · Migration, Health and Trauma (9 obras) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (9 obras) · Politics (9 obras)