Ernesto Castañeda is assistant professor of sociology at American University where he is affiliated with the Metropolitan Policy Center, the Center of Latin American and Latino Studies, and the Center on Health Risk and Society.

Castañeda presents a conceptually thorough and theoretically comprehensive account for understanding the structural, discursive, and experiential conditions that racialize and demean the life and presence of Latin people in the United States. We not only observe his contribution to the sociological subject matter but also witness an exemplar of where migration studies stands today. By introducing a framework on Latin racialization and Pan-American racial projects, Castañeda takes critical immigration studies in the direction that is most needed to assess the political, demographic, and racial future of the United States.

• Part I Categorical Thinking1 The Historical and Contemporary Exclusion of Latin People from the American Identity with Maura Fennelly2 Migration and its Challenges to Political Theory and Nationalism 3 Boundary Formation: Nationalism, Immigration, and Categorical Inequality between Americans and MexicansPart II Anti-Immigrant Speech4 Border Vigilantes at the University: Anti-immigrant Discourse and Ideological Campaigns5 Fronting the White Storm with Dennis West6 Anti-Immigrant Online Comment Sections in the Aftermath of Trump’s Election with Catherine HarlosPart III Immigration as an Experience7 Different Understandings of the Border Wall: The Social Meanings of the Wall for Border Residents8 Fear of Deportation among Mexicans fleeing Violence with Natali Collazos, Eva Moya, Silvia Chávez-Baray9 Invisible New Yorkers: Boundaries, Interethnic Networks, Immigrant Integration, and Social Invisibility10 Why Walls Won’t Work: Interactions between Latin Immigrants and Americans with Maura FennellyReferences

Ernesto Castañeda is assistant professor of sociology at American University where he is affiliated with the Metropolitan Policy Center, the Center of Latin American and Latino Studies, and the Center on Health Risk and Society.

Castañeda presents a conceptually thorough and theoretically comprehensive account for understanding the structural, discursive, and experiential conditions that racialize and demean the life and presence of Latin people in the United States. We not only observe his contribution to the sociological subject matter but also witness an exemplar of where migration studies stands today. By introducing a framework on Latin racialization and Pan-American racial projects, Castañeda takes critical immigration studies in the direction that is most needed to assess the political, demographic, and racial future of the United States.

• Part I Categorical Thinking1 The Historical and Contemporary Exclusion of Latin People from the American Identity with Maura Fennelly2 Migration and its Challenges to Political Theory and Nationalism 3 Boundary Formation: Nationalism, Immigration, and Categorical Inequality between Americans and MexicansPart II Anti-Immigrant Speech4 Border Vigilantes at the University: Anti-immigrant Discourse and Ideological Campaigns5 Fronting the White Storm with Dennis West6 Anti-Immigrant Online Comment Sections in the Aftermath of Trump’s Election with Catherine HarlosPart III Immigration as an Experience7 Different Understandings of the Border Wall: The Social Meanings of the Wall for Border Residents8 Fear of Deportation among Mexicans fleeing Violence with Natali Collazos, Eva Moya, Silvia Chávez-Baray9 Invisible New Yorkers: Boundaries, Interethnic Networks, Immigrant Integration, and Social Invisibility10 Why Walls Won’t Work: Interactions between Latin Immigrants and Americans with Maura FennellyReferences