David Trouille

Just got the cover art from the press! Dropping in March 2026!

California farmers say Medicaid recipients, automation can’t replace their immigrant workers As the Trump administration has carried out mass deportations, leaders have flip-flopped on whether to exempt some industries, including agriculture, from raids.

“It just shows how uninformed and out of touch some of these officials are with what food production looks like in this country.”

www.latimes.com/california/s...

We feed you.
They hunt us.

By the Power Vested in Me | Columbia University Press In both the United States and France, each side of the legal battle over same-sex marriage and parenthood relied heavily on experts. Despite the similarity o... | CUP

By the Power Vested in Me is here!

Through the story of the fight over same-sex marriage in the United States and France, this book sheds new light on the contested power of experts to influence high-stakes democratic debates.

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Join the ASA International Migration section on Jan. 31, 2025 at 12:00 PST/3:00 EST for a online panel discussion: "Seeing Like a Hiring Committee." Register at: gmu.zoom.us/meeting/regi....
@asanews.bsky.social

US Farm Labor and H-2A Visas: The Road Ahead

Virtual talk at the Wilson Center (1/30):

US Farm Labor and H-2A Visas: The Road Ahead

mexicoelections.wilsoncenter.org/event/us-far...

one of key functions of immigration raids & crackdowns is not to actually deport all migrants/refugees but to deepen conditions of social precarity & labor deportability. to make migrants more vulnerable to exploitation from bosses & landlords & banks, and to create scapegoats for austerity policies

Farm workers harvesting apples

Jesús has been an apple harvester for 18 years in Wapsto, WA. He shares, "we currently are picking the last harvest. With the cold wet weather it is very tiring and dangerous to climb up high picking apples and carrying a heavy bag for 8 hours a day." #WeFeedYou

Elated to share that the dream team @stephcanizales.bsky.social, @drmirianma.bsky.social, Silvia Rodriguez Vega and I are getting ~$1.6 million from UCOP MRPI for our project Reimagining Refuge: California for Just Migrant Futures. Stay tuned for seed grants to CA scholars, artists, and activists!

Trump vows to ‘hire American.’ His businesses keep hiring foreign guest workers | CNN Politics Trump’s businesses, including the Mar-a-Lago Club and a Virginia winery, have collectively increased their reliance on temporary foreign laborers over the years.

This isn't the contradiction they suggest. For Trump, guest workers are "perfect immigrants" undergirding his nativist, restrictionist agenda.

www.cnn.com/2024/12/16/p...

Pleased to see my students explore the individual experiences of migration we examined more broadly this semester in the fifth installment of the “Immigrant Stories Project.”

sites.lib.jmu.edu/immigrantsto...

Yes, great podcast! Michael DeLand and I have a forthcoming book chapter on pickup sports and social infrastructure making a similar case to "slow down and connect."

A New Bracero Program Is Not the Solution An Eisenhower-era initiative holds key lessons for Trump’s immigration policy.

Here in the U.S., “legalizing” illegal immigrants by making them guest workers would continue a dishonorable tradition. Americans should not be fooled if Trump announces it as a “beautiful” solution to illegal immigration. - Mae Ngai

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Duty Free: Life and Luxury beyond the Nation-State What globalization has come to look like for the rich. ...

Fascinating, troubling read on "free economic zones."

"While the rich get to pass through the hidden globe liberated and undisturbed, these domains outside the jurisdiction of one state or another can also become zones of unfreedom."

www.transcend.org/tms/2024/12/...

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Opinion | Nurses, Chaplains and Teachers Should Not Be Replaced With Technology We’re increasingly becoming a society in which very wealthy people get human care, like concierge medicine and private schools with tiny class sizes.

A good piece to end my intro sociology course, which has probably overlooked the “luxuries” of human interaction.

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/04/o...

Trump's mass deportation plan could hinder US farmers; lead to higher prices Industry experts and farmers warned FOX Business that there could be a significant impact on the agriculture sector if Trump's mass deportation plan is implemented.

The ceaseless contradictions of capitalism and border control:

www.foxbusiness.com/economy/trum...

China’s share of global electric car market rises to 76% Market share increases after strong demand within country offsets risks from western tariffs on Chinese-made EVs

That seems roughly the market share of Chinese EVs I’ve observed in Costa Rica.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Six different photos of farm workers in the fields in oittle boxes with the text overlay on Giving Tuesday there's no better time to give back to the people putting food on your table

On #GivingTuesday, there’s no better time to make a difference for the men and women who feed this country. We’re grateful for each of our many friends, and all you do on behalf of farm workers. ufw.org/givingtuesda... or paypal.com/paypalme/ufw... #WeFeedYou

A wonderful immigrant-owned Spanish language preschool is relocating to an old ICE detention facility in my rural Virginia hometown. This would be poetic justice if they hadn’t moved across the street to a bigger building. Worried for our migrant community but inspired by their responses.

Making Precarity Work Shows how the precarious workers of Venice Beach—without help from the government—work together to create a safety net for themselves.   In Making Precarity Work, sociologist Laura A. Orrico shows how...

So happy to learn that Laura Orrico's book on the precarious workers of Venice Beach is forthcoming:

press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Rebuilding here. Writing a book on temporary agricultural labor. Hi!