Tanya Golash-Boza

Tanya Golash-Boza

Founder of the Racism, Capitalism, and the Law Lab; Professor of Sociology, University of California-Merced
Chapter Member: Bay Area SSN
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About Tanya

Golash-Boza's research focuses on gaining a deep understanding of systems of oppression and exploitation. She has published several books on race and immigration including: Deported: Immigrant Policing, Disposable Labor and Global Capitalism; Forced out Fenced In: Immigration Tales from the Field; and Immigration Nation: Raids, Detentions, and Deportations in Post 9/11 America.

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In the News

"Epifanio Camacho: a Militant Farmworker Brushed Out of History," Tanya Golash-Boza (with Michael Golash), CounterPunch, March 25, 2019.
"Which 3-Letter Agency is Enforcing US Immigration Laws at the Border?," Tanya Golash-Boza, The Conversation, July 10, 2018.
Tanya Golash-Boza quoted by Jose Moreno, "In Bensalem, a Potential Police Alliance with ICE Brings a Warning" The Inquirer, January 12, 2018.
"Here’s How Undocumented Students are Able to Enroll at American Universities," Tanya Golash-Boza (with Benigno Merlin), The Conversation, November 24, 2016.
"It’s Time to Legalize All Undocumented Immigrants," Tanya Golash-Boza, Al Jazeera America, August 7, 2015.
"Racism, Citizenship and Deportation in the United States," Tanya Golash-Boza, Open Democracy, June 23, 2015.
"Mass Deportation Targets Black and Latino Men," Tanya Golash-Boza, Santa Barbara Independent, January 24, 2015.
"Is President Obama a Deporter-in-Chief?," Tanya Golash-Boza, El Beisman, March 20, 2014.
Interview on Immigration Tanya Golash-Boza, Society Pages, February 24, 2014.
"Does Racism Help or Hurt White America?," Tanya Golash-Boza, Counterpunch, January 29, 2014.
"Asian Americans: Myth and Reality," Tanya Golash-Boza, Al Jazeera, December 23, 2013.
"Obama's Deportation Record is One of Discrimination," Tanya Golash-Boza, Houston Chronicle, October 24, 2013.
"The Problems with White Allies and White Privilege," Tanya Golash-Boza, Al Jazeera, September 20, 2013.
"Scientific Racism Rears Its Ugly Head Once Again," Tanya Golash-Boza, Al Jazeera, May 24, 2013.
"Can the United States Solve the Problem of Undocumented Immigration?," Tanya Golash-Boza, Al Jazeera, April 23, 2013.
"No Human Being is Illegal: It's Time to Drop the 'I-Word'," Tanya Golash-Boza, Al Jazeera, April 8, 2013.
"The Key Elements of a Successful Immigration Policy," Tanya Golash-Boza, Al Jazeera, March 25, 2013.
"The Collateral Consequences of Mass Deportation," Tanya Golash-Boza, Al Jazeera, March 22, 2013.
"The U.S. Should Release Thousands, Not Hundreds of Detainees," Tanya Golash-Boza, Al Jazeera, March 1, 2013.
"Crossing the Line," Tanya Golash-Boza, Boston Review, March/April 2013.
"Obama’s Unprecedented Number of Deportations: The Shift from Border to Interior Enforcement of Immigration Laws," Tanya Golash-Boza, Counterpunch, January 25-27, 2013.

Publications

"Latino Immigrant Men and the Deportation Crisis: A Gendered Racial Removal Program" (with Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo). Latino Studies 11, no. 3 (2013): 271-292.
Outlines how deportation policies have shifted in recent years from border to interior enforcement and how this shift has targeted Latino men.
"Causes and Consequences of International Migration: Sociological Evidence for the Right to Mobility" (with Cecilia Menjívar). The International Journal of Human Rights 16, no. 8 (2012): 1213-1227.

Argues that the right to move across national borders should be incorporated into human rights doctrine.

"Had They Been Polite and Civilized, None of This Would Have Happened: Discourses of Race and Racism in Multicultural Lima" Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies 5, no. 3 (2010): 317-330.
Explains how Peruvians are aware that racism is a problem, decry racism, yet continue to reproduce racism through practices and beliefs.