Deborah A. Boehm is professor of anthropology and gender, race, and identity at the University of Nevada, Reno. She is the author of Intimate Migrations: Gender, Family, and Illegality among Transnational Mexicans and Returned: Going and Coming in an Age of Deportation, and coeditor of Illegal Encounters: The Effect of Detention and Deportation on Young People and Everyday Ruptures: Children, Youth, and Migration in Global Perspective. Her research has been supported by a Fulbright-García Robles Award, a Mellon/ACLS Scholars and Society Fellowship that provided a year-long collaboration with Freedom for Immigrants, and an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, as well as residencies at the School for Advanced Research, the University of Arizona School of Anthropology, and the Center for the Study of Law and Society at the University of California, Berkeley. Her current research projects focus on U.S. immigration detention regimes and the experiences of young migrants who are categorized as “unaccompanied minors” by the U.S. government.
Her project, “Confinement Across Borders: Immigration Detention in the United States and Beyond,” traces the multiple unseen spaces of immigration detention within and beyond U.S. borders, revealing how obscurity itself produces this complex system of injustice.
