Patrisia Macías

BA, Sarah Lawrence College. MA, PhD, University of California-Berkeley. Research interests include international migration, border controls, human smuggling, the penal state, race relations, ethnographic methods, and social theory; current project examines the role of states, smugglers, vigilantes, and NGOs in regulating clandestine migrations at the United States-Mexico border; recipient of grants and fellowships from the National Science Foundation, Andrew Mellon Program in Latin American Sociology, Social Science Research Council, and Center for Latino Policy Research at the University of California-Berkeley. SLC, 2007–