Migration Content

How Do We Document Stories at the Border?

Karen Michele Nikos — April 02, 2021 - 3:54pm

In a typical year, hundreds of thousands of people are deported from the U.S. for entering or staying in the country illegally.

Humanizing Deportation

Tanya H Perez — October 30, 2020 - 5:08pm

Robert Irwin, a professor at University of California, Davis, has been working on a community-based digital storytelling project, Humanizing Deportation/Humanizando la Deportación, since 2016. Irwin, a professor of Spanish, and teams of ��ϲ��Ͽ� Davis graduate students, as well as collaborators from several Mexican institutions, have carried out fieldwork all over Mexico and California, facilitating the production of hundreds of personal stories on issues relating to deportation.

��ϲ��Ͽ� Davis Presents Conference ‘Debunking Deportation Myths’ Tuesday

Karen Michele Nikos — March 01, 2019 - 1:05pm

What

As U.S. policymakers struggle to find a policy solution to address the restrictions on legal immigration that lead to undocumented immigration, deportations have become a reality affecting the lives of millions of immigrants and local communities.

Earth’s Oldest Trees in Climate-Induced Race up the Tree Line

Katherine E Kerlin — September 13, 2017 - 1:11pm

Bristlecone pine and limber pine trees in the Great Basin region are like two very gnarled, old men in a slow-motion race up the mountaintop, and climate change is the starting gun, according to a study from the University of California, Davis.

Monarchs’ Wings Yield Clues to Their Birthplaces

Patricia Bailey — January 26, 2016 - 9:49am

A newly published study of California’s overwintering monarch butterflies confirmed many previous migratory studies. But the findings also showed some unexpected and surprising patterns of movement, reports a research team led by the University of California, Davis.

The study, published in the early online version of the print journal Ecography, examined the natal origins, or “birthplaces,” of butterflies at four California overwintering sites.