Jamie Longazel is an Associate Professor of Law & Society at John Jay College and is affiliated with the International Migration Studies (IMS) program at the CUNY Graduate Center. He received a PhD in sociology from the University of Delaware in 2011 after completing a Law and Social Science Doctoral Fellowship at the American Bar Foundation. From 2011-2017, he taught at the University of Dayton. Most of Longazel's research focuses on immigration politics, although he's also written about mass incarceration and the politics of policing. Most recently, he co-edited (with Miranda Cady Hallett) Migration and Mortality: Social Death, Dispossession, and Survival in the Americas (Temple University Press, 2021). His previous book, Undocumented Fears: Immigration and the Politics of Divide and Conquer in Hazleton, Pennsylvania (Temple University Press, 2016) won the North Central Sociological Association’s 2017 Scholarly Achievement Award. He is also the co-author (with Benjamin Fleury-Steiner) of The Pains of Mass Imprisonment (Routledge, 2014). He has published academic articles in Race & Class, Law & Society Review, Law & Social Inquiry, Punishment & Society, and Theoretical Criminology, among other outlets. In addition to his primary teaching assignment in John Jay's undergraduate Law & Society major, he has taught in prisons and has led numerous social movement workshops over the years. He was also the founder of Anthracite Unite, a collective working on racial and economic justice in Northeast Pennsylvania.