I've been on @Mastodon for a few weeks, but have not done an #introduction yet...

I'm a professor of Geography and Environment at the University of Hawai'i. I've written four books on #borders and #immigration. I'm also the Editor-in-Chief of the journal @Geopolitics

I mostly post about border politics and freedom of movement, with a few photos of Hawai'i too, usually timed for wintry weather elsewhere 😂

#geography #twittermigration #introductions @geography @immigration @politicalscience

Today we'll receive survey data for this project on the consequences of military policing: https://osf.io/znyxp. This builds on an RCT we ran in 2019, randomizing military patrols at the block level in Cali, #Colombia.

Now we want to understand why so many support military policing, given the apparently weak or adverse effects associated with these interventions. To do so, we conducted nearly 8,000 surveys.

@politicalscience #military #policing #politicalscience #research @violence

An often overlooked fact in Mexico's "Drug War" is the astonishing increase in the number of people who have been reported missing and disappeared.

Since the start of the war on drugs (December 2006), the National Search Commission has recorded around 100K missing persons, with the vast majority having disappeared.

During the same time period, more than 400K Mexicans have been killed.