Alisa Hartsell
Biographic Data
| ID | 1253641 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alisa Hartsell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Hartsell |
| SIGNATURE | HARTSELL A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0771-0761 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Justice by Geography: Legal Violence and Asylum in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
"Producing "Illegality: The Racialization of Mexican and Central American Asylum Seekers in the United States
As record numbers of Mexican and Central Americans arrive at the US-Mexico border, they encounter an asylum system that has evolved to exclude them. After detailing the specific legal changes that racialize these nationalities through criminalization, this study uses asylum data to illustrate how the current structure of the asylum process produces illegality for Mexican and Central Americans seeking protection in the US. We draw on asylum data o…
Navigating United States Immigration Courts Through Shadowing Asylum Seekers
This paper is an institutional ethnography of the asylum-seeking process in the U.S. immigration courts. While most hearings are open to the public, the "public" is rarely present at immigration courts. Consequently, the process to observe these legal proceedings is insufficiently understood. In this paper, I reflect on the practice of shadowing migrants as a type of institutional ethnography based on interviews and observations following migrant…
Legal bordering of asylum through liminality
Im/Mobility at the US-Mexico Border during the Covid-19 Pandemic
In March 2020, the United States government began a series of measures designed to dramatically restrict immigration as part of its response to the global health crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic. This included Title 42, which deported asylum seekers immediately and prevented them from applying for asylum. These measures worsened an already precarious situation at the US-Mexico border for an estimated 60,000 asylum seekers who were preven…
The uneven geography of asylum and humanitarian relief: Place-based precarity for Central American migrant youth in the United States judicial system
The rising number of unaccompanied migrant children (UMC) crossing the U.S.-Mexico border received intense media attention during 2014 and remains significant. Unaccompanied minors seeking relief through the immigration court system is at a record high. A crisis of legal representation and of disparity in granting asylum or other humanitarian relief across Department of Justice (DOJ) immigration courts and among individual judges creates an unequ…
Im/Mobility at the US-Mexico Border during the Covid-19 Pandemic
In March 2020, the United States government began a series of measures designed to dramatically restrict immigration as part of its response to the global health crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic. This included Title 42, which deported asylum seekers immediately and prevented them from applying for asylum. These measures worsened an already precarious situation at the US-Mexico border for an estimated 60,000 asylum seekers who were preven…
The uneven geography of asylum and humanitarian relief: Place-based precarity for Central American migrant youth in the United States judicial system
The rising number of unaccompanied migrant children (UMC) crossing the U.S.-Mexico border received intense media attention during 2014 and remains significant. Unaccompanied minors seeking relief through the immigration court system is at a record high. A crisis of legal representation and of disparity in granting asylum or other humanitarian relief across Department of Justice (DOJ) immigration courts and among individual judges creates an unequ…
Legal bordering of asylum through liminality
"Producing "Illegality: The Racialization of Mexican and Central American Asylum Seekers in the United States
As record numbers of Mexican and Central Americans arrive at the US-Mexico border, they encounter an asylum system that has evolved to exclude them. After detailing the specific legal changes that racialize these nationalities through criminalization, this study uses asylum data to illustrate how the current structure of the asylum process produces illegality for Mexican and Central Americans seeking protection in the US. We draw on asylum data o…
Navigating United States Immigration Courts Through Shadowing Asylum Seekers
This paper is an institutional ethnography of the asylum-seeking process in the U.S. immigration courts. While most hearings are open to the public, the "public" is rarely present at immigration courts. Consequently, the process to observe these legal proceedings is insufficiently understood. In this paper, I reflect on the practice of shadowing migrants as a type of institutional ethnography based on interviews and observations following migrant…
Im/Mobility at the US-Mexico Border during the Covid-19 Pandemic
In March 2020, the United States government began a series of measures designed to dramatically restrict immigration as part of its response to the global health crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic. This included Title 42, which deported asylum seekers immediately and prevented them from applying for asylum. These measures worsened an already precarious situation at the US-Mexico border for an estimated 60,000 asylum seekers who were preven…
The uneven geography of asylum and humanitarian relief: Place-based precarity for Central American migrant youth in the United States judicial system
The rising number of unaccompanied migrant children (UMC) crossing the U.S.-Mexico border received intense media attention during 2014 and remains significant. Unaccompanied minors seeking relief through the immigration court system is at a record high. A crisis of legal representation and of disparity in granting asylum or other humanitarian relief across Department of Justice (DOJ) immigration courts and among individual judges creates an unequ…
Legal bordering of asylum through liminality
Navigating United States Immigration Courts Through Shadowing Asylum Seekers
This paper is an institutional ethnography of the asylum-seeking process in the U.S. immigration courts. While most hearings are open to the public, the "public" is rarely present at immigration courts. Consequently, the process to observe these legal proceedings is insufficiently understood. In this paper, I reflect on the practice of shadowing migrants as a type of institutional ethnography based on interviews and observations following migrant…
Justice by Geography: Legal Violence and Asylum in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
"Producing "Illegality: The Racialization of Mexican and Central American Asylum Seekers in the United States
As record numbers of Mexican and Central Americans arrive at the US-Mexico border, they encounter an asylum system that has evolved to exclude them. After detailing the specific legal changes that racialize these nationalities through criminalization, this study uses asylum data to illustrate how the current structure of the asylum process produces illegality for Mexican and Central Americans seeking protection in the US. We draw on asylum data o…
Criminology (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (6 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Immigration (5 works) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (5 works) · Refugee (5 works) · Law (4 works)