Margot Moinester
Biographic Data
| ID | 214120 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margot Moinester |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margot |
| FAMILY NAME | Moinester |
| SIGNATURE | MOINESTER M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington University in St. Louis |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2734-1863 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Deportation in an era of devolved discretionary power
This article examines drivers of state-level variation in interior immigration enforcement rates from 2015 through 2019. Combining analysis of administrative data on ICE apprehensions with in-depth interviews with immigration attorneys and advocates in a higher-enforcement state (New Hampshire) and a lower-enforcement state (Massachusetts), results move beyond the existing scholarly focus on on-the-books restrictive policies and police-ICE partne…
Resisting Enforcement
While a large body of literature shows that anti-immigrant policies, rhetoric, and contexts have political and civic mobilization effects on immigrants, we know little about the mobilization consequences of actual enforcement contact with the Homeland Security State. In this article, we investigate the relationship between different forms of contact with the immigration enforcement system and electoral and non-electoral participation for Latinx a…
Measuring and assessing refugee success in the USA
To better understand the factors that impede and facilitate refugee success, it is important to clarify how success is operationalized in research and evaluations. This scoping review examined quantitative methods used to measure refugee success in the USA, mapping the domains and parameters studied, data collection methods, and contexts of reception and exit. Fifty-two articles met the eligibility criteria. Findings revealed variability in popul…
Policy Brief
How Refugees Conceptualise Success
The global refugee system prioritises self-sufficiency as a prime objective, but refugees may have different views of their success. To assess how refugees across varying contexts of exit and reception conceptualise success, this study draws on in-depth interviews with 36 adult refugees from Iraq and Democratic Republic of Congo resettled in Denver, Colorado, and St Louis, Missouri. This article makes four main contributions to the refugee resett…
Extending Driver's Licenses to Undocumented Immigrants
Research shows that restrictive immigration policies and practices are associated with poor health, but far less is known about the relationship between inclusive immigration policies and health. Using data from the United States natality files, we estimate associations between state laws granting undocumented immigrants access to driver's licenses and perinatal outcomes among 4,047,067 singleton births to Mexican and Central American immigrant b…
The Control Boom
This article examines how and why US interior immigration enforcement rates shifted over the past half century. Combining administrative, census, and archival data, results show a more extensive history of interior enforcement than previously documented. Findings further identify the state’s expansion of immigrant “illegality” and enhanced apprehension capacity as the key mechanisms driving the post-1990s increase in the interior deportation rate…
Disparities in Loss from Covid-19
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has resulted in more than 900,000 deaths in the United States, disproportionately affecting racial and ethnic minorities. The pandemic is likely leading to disparate experiences of loss, though little research to date has examined disparities in experiences of loss from COVID-19. Drawing on a nationally representative survey of 6,000 first- and second-generation Latinx and Asian adults carried out …
A Look to the Interior
Over the past two decades, the U.S. federal government has sought to increase its capacity to find, apprehend, and deport noncitizens residing in the United States who have violated federal immigration laws. One way the federal government has done this is by partnering with state and local law enforcement agencies on immigration enforcement efforts. The present study analyzes the records of all 1,964,756 interior removals between fiscal years 200…
Beyond the Border and Into the Heartland
The expansion of U.S. immigration enforcement from the borders into the interior of the country and the fivefold increase in immigration detentions and deportations since 1995 raise important questions about how the enforcement of immigration law is spatially patterned across American communities. Focusing on the practice of immigration detention, the present study analyzes the records of all 717,160 noncitizens detained by Immigration and Custom…
Beyond the Border and Into the Heartland
The expansion of U.S. immigration enforcement from the borders into the interior of the country and the fivefold increase in immigration detentions and deportations since 1995 raise important questions about how the enforcement of immigration law is spatially patterned across American communities. Focusing on the practice of immigration detention, the present study analyzes the records of all 717,160 noncitizens detained by Immigration and Custom…
The Control Boom
This article examines how and why US interior immigration enforcement rates shifted over the past half century. Combining administrative, census, and archival data, results show a more extensive history of interior enforcement than previously documented. Findings further identify the state’s expansion of immigrant “illegality” and enhanced apprehension capacity as the key mechanisms driving the post-1990s increase in the interior deportation rate…
A Look to the Interior
Over the past two decades, the U.S. federal government has sought to increase its capacity to find, apprehend, and deport noncitizens residing in the United States who have violated federal immigration laws. One way the federal government has done this is by partnering with state and local law enforcement agencies on immigration enforcement efforts. The present study analyzes the records of all 1,964,756 interior removals between fiscal years 200…
Extending Driver's Licenses to Undocumented Immigrants
Research shows that restrictive immigration policies and practices are associated with poor health, but far less is known about the relationship between inclusive immigration policies and health. Using data from the United States natality files, we estimate associations between state laws granting undocumented immigrants access to driver's licenses and perinatal outcomes among 4,047,067 singleton births to Mexican and Central American immigrant b…
Disparities in Loss from Covid-19
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has resulted in more than 900,000 deaths in the United States, disproportionately affecting racial and ethnic minorities. The pandemic is likely leading to disparate experiences of loss, though little research to date has examined disparities in experiences of loss from COVID-19. Drawing on a nationally representative survey of 6,000 first- and second-generation Latinx and Asian adults carried out …
Beyond the Border and Into the Heartland
The expansion of U.S. immigration enforcement from the borders into the interior of the country and the fivefold increase in immigration detentions and deportations since 1995 raise important questions about how the enforcement of immigration law is spatially patterned across American communities. Focusing on the practice of immigration detention, the present study analyzes the records of all 717,160 noncitizens detained by Immigration and Custom…
A Look to the Interior
Over the past two decades, the U.S. federal government has sought to increase its capacity to find, apprehend, and deport noncitizens residing in the United States who have violated federal immigration laws. One way the federal government has done this is by partnering with state and local law enforcement agencies on immigration enforcement efforts. The present study analyzes the records of all 1,964,756 interior removals between fiscal years 200…
Disparities in Loss from Covid-19
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has resulted in more than 900,000 deaths in the United States, disproportionately affecting racial and ethnic minorities. The pandemic is likely leading to disparate experiences of loss, though little research to date has examined disparities in experiences of loss from COVID-19. Drawing on a nationally representative survey of 6,000 first- and second-generation Latinx and Asian adults carried out …
Policy Brief
How Refugees Conceptualise Success
The global refugee system prioritises self-sufficiency as a prime objective, but refugees may have different views of their success. To assess how refugees across varying contexts of exit and reception conceptualise success, this study draws on in-depth interviews with 36 adult refugees from Iraq and Democratic Republic of Congo resettled in Denver, Colorado, and St Louis, Missouri. This article makes four main contributions to the refugee resett…
Extending Driver's Licenses to Undocumented Immigrants
Research shows that restrictive immigration policies and practices are associated with poor health, but far less is known about the relationship between inclusive immigration policies and health. Using data from the United States natality files, we estimate associations between state laws granting undocumented immigrants access to driver's licenses and perinatal outcomes among 4,047,067 singleton births to Mexican and Central American immigrant b…
The Control Boom
This article examines how and why US interior immigration enforcement rates shifted over the past half century. Combining administrative, census, and archival data, results show a more extensive history of interior enforcement than previously documented. Findings further identify the state’s expansion of immigrant “illegality” and enhanced apprehension capacity as the key mechanisms driving the post-1990s increase in the interior deportation rate…
Resisting Enforcement
While a large body of literature shows that anti-immigrant policies, rhetoric, and contexts have political and civic mobilization effects on immigrants, we know little about the mobilization consequences of actual enforcement contact with the Homeland Security State. In this article, we investigate the relationship between different forms of contact with the immigration enforcement system and electoral and non-electoral participation for Latinx a…
Measuring and assessing refugee success in the USA
To better understand the factors that impede and facilitate refugee success, it is important to clarify how success is operationalized in research and evaluations. This scoping review examined quantitative methods used to measure refugee success in the USA, mapping the domains and parameters studied, data collection methods, and contexts of reception and exit. Fifty-two articles met the eligibility criteria. Findings revealed variability in popul…
Deportation in an era of devolved discretionary power
This article examines drivers of state-level variation in interior immigration enforcement rates from 2015 through 2019. Combining analysis of administrative data on ICE apprehensions with in-depth interviews with immigration attorneys and advocates in a higher-enforcement state (New Hampshire) and a lower-enforcement state (Massachusetts), results move beyond the existing scholarly focus on on-the-books restrictive policies and police-ICE partne…
Political science (8 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (7 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (7 works) · Immigration (6 works) · Enforcement (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Demographic economics (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Criminology (3 works)