David Cook-Martín is a professor of sociology at New York University Abu Dhabi’s Social Research and Public Policy program. His book Scramble for Citizens: Dual Nationality and State Competition for Immigrants (Stanford University Press, 2013) won the Thomas and Znaniecki Prize of the American Sociological Association. Culling the Masses: The Democratic Origins of Racism Immigration Policy in the Americas (Harvard University Press, 2014), coauthored with David FitzGerald, won the ASA’s Distinguished Scholarly Publication award in 2017.

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The Future of Migration
In 2008, in a town of about 2,000 people, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained 389 workers and charged them with civil immigration violations and identity theft. The Bush administration had decided to experiment with mass workplace arrests and assembly-line judicial proceedings. The target was a kosher meatpacking plant in rural Postville, Iowa. What most […]










