Author Archives: Gilberto Rosas

About Gilberto Rosas

Gilberto Rosas is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Latina/o Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His expertise includes questions of state formation, immigration, criminality, political economy and the ever thickening US-Mexico borderlands.

‘Race’ to Borders or Why Brown Death Matters

Posted on 05/07/2015 by Gilberto Rosas

The mass detention of would-be refugees in Texas, recently covered in The New York Times Magazine, is but the latest cruel episode in the material histories of international borders and state-mediated racism. Central American women and children who’ve fled criminal … Continue reading →

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The Border Thickens: In-Securing Communities in C-U and Beyond

Posted on 05/21/2011 by Gilberto Rosas

The despotic policing apparatus found at the U.S.-Mexico border now reaches into Champaign County and across much of the United States. Under federal initiatives “Secure Communities” and related police-ICE collaborations, local law enforcement agencies in communities across the United States … Continue reading →

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