Asad L. Asad, assistant professor of sociology and a faculty affiliate at the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) at Stanford University, will speak as part of the Sociology Fall Colloquium Series. The Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights is a co-sponsor of his visit.
Asad’s research uses the U.S. immigration system as a lens for studying how institutional categories — namely, citizenship and legal status — relate to social control and inequality. Current research projects examine the effects of immigration enforcement on health, the federal judiciary’s role in immigration enforcement, and the capacity of immigrant-serving organizations to transform the U.S. immigration system.
Asad is the author of the award-winning book Engage and Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday Life (Princeton University Press). Other research appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Law & Society Review, International Migration Review, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, and Social Science & Medicine, among other outlets. Asad’s work has received awards or recognition from the American Political Science Association, the American Sociological Association, the American Society of Criminology, the Eastern Sociological Society, the Law and Society Association, the Order of the Coif, the Pacific Sociological Association, and the Society for the Study of Social Problems. His research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the Russell Sage Foundation.
Originally published at klau.nd.edu.