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Dr. James Dobson’s Apologia for Ted Bundy: How Evangelical Christianity Became a Safe Space for…

To paraphrase Faulkner, America’s religious past is never dead; it isn’t even past. The recent resurgence of overt white supremacy and…

7 min readAug 24, 2020

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Biden Admin to Create Regional Migrant Processing Centers in Latin America, Raising Potential…

Asylum seekers may soon find that instead of waiting until they arrive at the US-Mexico border to meet with a US immigration official, they…

5 min readApr 28, 2023

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Biden Admin to Create Regional Migrant Processing Centers in Latin America, Raising Potential…

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Austin Kocher, PhD

#TechTuesday: Three Apps I Use Everyday as an Academic Researcher (That You Probably Haven’t Heard…

Welcome to another edition of #TechTuesday, an intermittent post about the ways that academic research intersects with technology. Today I…

5 min readJul 19, 2022

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#TechTuesday: Three Apps I Use Everyday as an Academic Researcher (That You Probably Haven’t Heard…

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Austin Kocher, PhD

A Data Portrait of the 611,470 DACA Recipients Who Still Have no Path to Citizenship

DACA turns 10 years old on Wednesday, June 15 — an anniversary that was hardly a foregone conclusion given years of legal challenges. DACA…

2 min readJun 15, 2022

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A Data Portrait of the 611,470 DACA Recipients Who Still Have no Path to Citizenship

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Austin Kocher, PhD

Biden Administration on Track to Increase Refugee Resettlement This Year but Falls Far Short of Cap

The Biden administration is on track to increase the number of refugees admitted into the United States from about 11,400 last year in FY…

4 min readJun 13, 2022

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Biden Administration on Track to Increase Refugee Resettlement This Year but Falls Far Short of Cap

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Austin Kocher, PhD

#TGIF — Immigration Updates Before the Weekend

It’s Friday! But before you check out of the week, read (or skim) these really important announcements in the immigration world.

4 min readMay 13, 2022

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#TGIF — Immigration Updates Before the Weekend

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Austin Kocher, PhD

What You Need to Know about Biden’s Immigrant Detention Numbers: A Closer Look at New Trends

Immigrant detention has been controversial from the days of Ellis and Angel Islands in the late 1800s through the emergence of a for-profit…

3 min readApr 5, 2022

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What You Need to Know about Biden’s Immigrant Detention Numbers: A Closer Look at New Trends

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Number of Immigrants Held in ICE Detention Facilities Declines to Under 18,000 at the End of…

Just a quick announcement today related to recent research published by Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse…

2 min readMar 7, 2022

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Number of Immigrants Held in ICE Detention Facilities Declines to Under 18,000 at the End of…

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500,000 Ukrainian Refugees Flee the Country but Little-Known Law May Exempt Them From the Asylum…

According to UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi this morning, more than half a million people have fled Ukraine as a result…

5 min readFeb 28, 2022

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500,000 Ukrainian Refugees Flee the Country but Little-Known Law May Exempt Them From the Asylum…

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Austin Kocher, PhD

Tools of the Trade: How to Automatically Import and Organize Your PDFs In Your Digital Library

If you find yourself downloading and organizing a lot of PDF documents, particularly for research purposes, you can save yourself a…

7 min readJan 26, 2022

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Tools of the Trade: How to Automatically Import and Organize Your PDFs In Your Digital Library

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Austin Kocher, PhD

Austin Kocher, PhD

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I study America’s immigration enforcement system. Assistant Professor at TRAC. Graduate of OSU Geography. Online at austinkocher.com.

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