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Dr. Austin Kocher is an Adjunct Professor at Syracuse University and an Assistant Research Professor at the Transactional Research Access Clearinghouse (TRAC), a research institute focused on using FOIA requests to study the federal government. His work emphasizes the political and legal geographies of racialized policing, local immigration enforcement, and the immigration court system. He employs cartographic, ethnographic, and quantitative methods to analyze how federal and local systems interact, with a focus on contesting deportation as a tool of social control.
Research Interests:
- Mapping federal data sets on immigration detention/enforcement
- Immigration court system dynamics
- Racialized policing practices
- Grassroots immigrant rights movements
Teaching: Teaches GEOG 6293: Geography of Climate Migration.
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