by Kiel Downey | Sep 23, 2019 | Publication
View the full report In the wake of the crisis in Venezuela, a “mixed-flow” migration—including Venezuelans who have left Venezuela for Colombia and Colombian returnees coming back from Venezuela—has created new and significant challenges for institutions in...
by Kiel Downey | Apr 12, 2019 | ROLC News
Recently, ROLC Core Faculty Dr. Breanne Grace was named one of fourteen 2019 Breakthrough Stars by the University of South Carolina’s Office of the Vice President for Research. Dr. Grace holds a PhD in Sociology from Michigan State University and is currently...
by Kiel Downey | Jan 29, 2019 | ROLC News
On Friday, February 8th, 2019, Dr. Melissa Wright, Professor of Geography and Women’s Gender, and Sexuality Studies, will present “Border Thinking, Border Life and the Necro-geography of Trump’s Wall” at the annual Julian V. Minghi Lecture in...
by Kiel Downey | Nov 30, 2018 | Publication
Liminal Sovereignty examines the lives of two religious minority communities in Mexico, Mennonites and Mormons, as seen through Mexican culture. Mennonites emigrated from Canada to Mexico from the 1920s to the 1940s, and Mormons emigrated from the United States in the...
by Kiel Downey | May 7, 2018 | Publication
View the Full Report Drawing on interviews conducted in 2017 with support from JUSTRAC, this report examines the case of the Somali Zigula in Tanzania, a former refugee population granted citizenship through a resettlement process—a “durable solution” to a refugee...
