Jonathan Xavier Inda

Jonathan Xavier Inda is Professor and Chair of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He earned his PhD in Anthropology from UC Berkeley and AB in Public Policy from Stanford University. His scholarship examines anthropology and globalization, governmentality and biopolitics, race-science-medicine intersections, and immigration politics.

His current book project, Confined to Death, investigates deadly healthcare failures in US immigration detention systems, arguing that 'uncaring medicine' stems from state constructions of immigrant criminality. This work documents over 200 detention deaths since 2003 linked to substandard care.

Inda's influential publications analyze racialized pharmaceuticals, biopolitical border controls ('necropolitics of immigration policing'), and the criminalization of migrants. His authored works include Targeting Immigrants (2006) and edited volumes Race, Identity, and Citizenship (1999) and Governing Immigration Through Crime (2013).