Irene Vega
Irene Vega is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. Her areas of specialization are in international migration, race/ethnicity, socio-legal studies, and educational inequality. Her forthcoming book: “Bordering on Indifference: How Immigration Agents Negotiate Race and Morality” (Princeton University Press) draws on fieldwork with Border Patrol Agents and Immigration and Customs Enforcement Deportation Officers working on the U.S.-Mexico border. The book examines the moral economy of immigration control, showing that indifference functions as both a bureaucratic resource that agents use to reconcile conflicting aspects of their work, as well as a product of agents’ efforts to cultivate a moral sense of self. You can find her research in well-regarded academic journals such as Social Problems, American Behavioral Scientist, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, and Theoretical Criminology.
