HUB XC 433 Border Studies Program Spring 2025

Academic Voluntourism
van der Giessen, Mark
Organization studies, 2023-12, Vol.44 (12), p.2057-2060
PEER REVIEWED

Towards an ethics of compassionate care in accompanying human suffering: dialogic relationships and feminist activist scholarship with asylum-seeking mothers.
M. Emilia Bianco & M. Brinton Lykes
Journal of Global Ethics, 19:2, 150-169, 2023
PEER REVIEWED

Title 42 and the power to exclude: Asylum seekers and the denial of entry into the United States
Obinna, Denise N.
Politics & policy (Statesboro, Ga.), 2023-08, Vol.51 (4), p.508-52
PEER REVIEWED

“It's my home, not a war zone”: Mobilizing a multitude to demilitarize the Texas Rio Grande Valley
Correa, Jennifer G. ; Thomas, James M.
Sociology compass, 2024-01, Vol.18 (1), p.n/a
PEER REVIEWED

Health Through a Human Right Lens at the US-Mexico Border: Increasing Access to Healthcare for Central American Immigrants
Venturi, Carolina ; Guízar-Sánchez, Diana ; Ramos-Tovar, María Elena ; Torres, Melissa ; Avellaneda, Flor D. ; Torres-Hostos, Luis R. ; Matuk-Villazon, Omar
Frontiers in public health, 2022-07, Vol.10
PEER REVIEWED

Notes on a Perilous Journey to the United States: Irregular Migration, Trafficking in Persons, and Organized Crime
Correa-Cabrera, Guadalupe ; Schaefer, Kathleen Blair
Latin American politics and society, 2022-10, Vol.64 (3), p.142-160
PEER REVIEWED

Reproductive Justice in Latin America
Nolan, Rachel
Latin American Research Review, 2022, Vol.57 (4), p.948-959
PEER REVIEWED

Central American Migration and the War on Drugs: The Politics of Representation in Oscar Martinez's The Beast
Lara, Adolfo Bejar
Chasqui, 2021, Vol.50 (2), p.365-385

Intermediarios y migraciones en América Latina
Nolan, Rachel ; Muñoz Arbeláez, Santiago
Historia crítica (Bogotá, Colombia), 2021, Vol.80 (80), p.3-10

Language Barrier
Nolan, Rachel
The New Yorker, 2020, Vol.95 (43), p.26

Guatemalan Child Refugees, Then and Now
Rachel Nolan
NACLA (North American Congress on Latin America) November 13, 2020

Offshoring Migration Control: Guatemalan Transmigrants and the Construction of Mexico as a Buffer Zone
Raquel Minian, Ana
The American historical review, 2020, Vol.125 (1), p.89-111

DATABASES

Politics Collection
Databases included in the Politics Collection or available separately:

• PAIS Index
• Worldwide Political Science Abstracts 
• Policy File Index
• Political Science Database

The Politics Collection- 2 minute introduction

• Web of Science
  This database is a core science resource, covering all aspects of scientific literature. 

• Google Scholar 

  Settings--> Library Links-- type "Boston University"

• JSTOR 
  Provides full text access to the back issues of core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.

• Project Muse 
  Provides access to scholarly journals and books in the humanities and social sciences. The scholarly content comes from non-profit scholarly publishers, including university presses and societies.