Dan Morrison interviews Abigail Andrews, Director of the Mexican Migration Field Research Program, Associate Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, and affiliated faculty in Sociology at the University of California, San Diego, along with Ana Lopez-Ricoy, PhD candidate in Sociology at UCSD, and Pamela Elguezabal, MSW student at San Diego State and a recent graduate of UCSD’s Sociology department. Andrews led the project that resulted in the 2023 book Banished Men: How Migrants Endure the Violence of Deportation, which was published by the University of California Press and is freely available through the UC Press website. In this interview, Andrews, Lopez-Ricoy, and Elguezabal discuss how men’s lives are shaped by their deportation to Mexico, why Mexico is not “home” for many, how the deportation is linked to incarceration, and the relationship between deportation and victimization. These scholars also discuss the emotional and interpersonal challenges of conducting research among this group of vulnerable and dehumanized men.
