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Irene I. Vega is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on international migration, race/ethnicity, socio-legal studies, and educational inequality. She is the author of Bordering on Indifference: How Immigration Agents Negotiate Race and Morality (Princeton University Press), which examines the moral dimensions of immigration enforcement through fieldwork with U.S.-Mexico border agents. Her work appears in journals such as Social Problems, American Behavioral Scientist, and Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.
Her research explores how immigration agents reconcile bureaucratic roles with personal morality, highlighting the role of 'indifference' in shaping both institutional practices and individual identity. No scientific awards, grants, or formal advisees are explicitly listed in the text.
