This continues our series of student reflections and analysis authored by our research team. In the United States today, the rise of mass shootings committed by a single individual continues to be a perplexing and worrying issue. In attempts to discover the motivation of the criminal and cope through the injustice, social media and news sources […]
This continues our series of student reflections and analysis authored by our research team. On September 18, 2018, the State Department released its new ceiling of 30,000 refugee admissions for the upcoming fiscal year (Malley & Pomper, 2018). This is the lowest level in the history of the 40-year old refugee resettlement agency, with the average […]
This continues our series of student reflections and analysis authored by our research team. One of the most difficult topics as far as coding that has come up during the course of our project is one that is fundamental to the question we are attempting to answer: What does it mean for a person to be “othered”? […]
This continues our series of student reflections and analysis authored by our research team. Future posts will focus on gender, religion, race and ethnicity, the role played by federal informants in sentencing, denaturalization as a response to terrorism, deciphering the distinction between hate crimes and other forms of bias-motivated violence, and a host of other topics. Stay […]