Our intrepid graduate editor and longtime board member Jacob Otis will be signing off from TSP this winter after several years of outstanding leadership and service. Jake’s vision, enthusiasm, and care for his work and for the project of public sociology has been a driving force in the TSP board throughout these years. In his […]

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Mirian G Martinez-Aranda, “Precarious Legal Patchworking: Detained Immigrants’ Access to Justice,” Social Problems, 2025 With U.S. immigration raids and detentions on the rise, more people are navigating a complex and hostile immigration court system. In a new study, Mirian Martinez-Aranda interviewed 55 formerly detained immigrants in southern California to understand how detainees navigate this system […]

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