Participant Info
- First Name
- Brianna
- Last Name
- Nofil
- Country
- United States
- State
- NY New York
- bln2109@columbia.edu
- Affiliation
- Columbia University
- Website URL
- briannanofil.com
- Keywords
- immigration, immigration detention, jails, carceral state, childhood, Miami, borderlands, federalism, privatization
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I am a historian of immigration and the carceral state currently completing my dissertation at Columbia University. In Fall 2020, I will be an Assistant Professor of U.S. History at the College of William & Mary.
My research examines the federal immigration service’s long history of relying on city and county jails for migrant detention and deportation, tracing the practice from the era of Chinese Exclusion to the era of ICE. I show how local governments came to see themselves as partners in the project of immigration law enforcement–a transformation that has significant stakes in the present, as cities and municipalities reckon with questions of immigration detainers, sanctuary status, and their relationship with an increasingly militarized immigration service.
- Recent Publications
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @BNofil
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- North America, United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Children & Youth, Law, Local & Regional, Migration & Immigration
