https://www.christinamhughes.com/welcome daily 0.75 2020-03-18 https://www.christinamhughes.com/home-miller daily 0.75 2025-07-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a8c02e4b0fca75f5d623c/1629651287715-OKGSL1QQXEAZRVWLHZSQ/Christina+Hughes+University+of+Washington+Sociology Miller I am currently an Assistant Professor in the Sociology Department at Macalester College. Drawing on historical, ethnographic, and quantitative methods to better understand how everyday social life is embedded within the global political economy, my research demonstrates how care and punishment are ordered and accomplished within and across the Global North and South. My recently published work focuses on how global regimes of care organize the labor and movement of people within and across national borders. Currently, in my first book manuscript, Bad Refugees, and my new collaborative mixed-methods evaluation work with a transformative justice organization in California prisons, I pursue two lines of questioning: How do states and markets classify people as either valuable or disposable? And when states and markets classify and punish people as disposable, how do they forge alternative systems of value and care? As a historical ethnographer, my research integrates the legacy of colonial world-ordering to intervene in longstanding conversations on the imperial ‘edges’ of state activity, the categorization/evaluation of deviance and social value, the relationship between immigration policy, racialization, and citizenship, and the resistance leveraged by disposed Others in response to state violence. As an instructor, my teaching practice uses history in creative ways to encourage students to think outside the confines of contemporary norms and assumptions. You can find my solo and collaborative published work in Demography, International Migration Review, International Journal of Sociology, World Development, Population Research and Policy Review, and the anthology, The New Black Sociologists: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5745eb6359827e6ebb73dcdc/1493403391235-122UZVBAB7GCZ8FQPEG3/image-asset.jpeg Miller - Nulla porttitor accumsan tincidunt. 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Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a8c02e4b0fca75f5d623c/986f39aa-d6e4-4353-a883-36b5c1aa0f8b/1.png CREATIVE WORK - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a8c02e4b0fca75f5d623c/4e9f882b-e6cb-471a-baad-a433b839b6ac/2.png CREATIVE WORK - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.christinamhughes.com/contact daily 0.75 2025-07-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a8c02e4b0fca75f5d623c/1629592271114-U9T3HNEJA1251J95ZIR7/Westminster+Avenue+at+Taft%2C+Garden+Grove%2C+May+1955.jpg CONTACT - Contact Downtown Bolsa, at Brookurst St. and Bolsa Ave. https://www.christinamhughes.com/research daily 0.75 2026-01-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a8c02e4b0fca75f5d623c/1629664389647-C91F7KKSGQY8NJDZSZ74/Screen+Shot+2021-08-18+at+10.46.16+AM.png RESEARCH Westminster Ave. at Brookhurst St., Garden Grove, Jan. 1957 (Source: Orange County Archives) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a8c02e4b0fca75f5d623c/1629663571011-800O52W6QBDDPWBF2Q9L/Garden+Grove+near+Westminster%2C+circa+1958+Looking+northeast+at+Garden+Grove+Blvd+just+east+of+Knott+Avenue%2C+circa+1958.+This+is+in+Garden+Grove%2C+on+the+border+of+Westminster..jpg RESEARCH Garden Grove near Westminster, Circa 1958 (Source: Orange County Archives) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a8c02e4b0fca75f5d623c/1629663632617-XKQVGL1FDG4JL498QI95/Disneyland+sign%2C+Harbor+Blvd%2C+Anaheim%2C+1974.jpg RESEARCH Mid-Century Style Disneyland Sign, Harbor Blvd, Anaheim, 1974 (Source: Orange County Archives) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a8c02e4b0fca75f5d623c/1629663561029-CFCIXM3YBOK83CA5JCOB/Little+Saigon+area%2C+1975.jpg RESEARCH Aerial View of Little Saigon Area, 1975, with Pillbox-Style Housing Tracts (Source: Orange County Archives) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a8c02e4b0fca75f5d623c/1629664376809-PGTU5YBYDN6O4FRCGWGN/Screen+Shot+2021-08-18+at+10.46.38+AM.png RESEARCH 1987 Photo of The Construction of Phước Lộc Thọ (Asian Garden Mall) (Source: Orange County Register) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a8c02e4b0fca75f5d623c/1629664289351-LTGQR87J9S1OCTMCUG2L/Screen+Shot+2021-08-03+at+3.44.49+PM.png RESEARCH 1986 Profile on the First Vietnamese Police Officer in the United States (Source: Orange County Register) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a8c02e4b0fca75f5d623c/1629663546303-0KFC2JVQSLIQI3KCABLD/T%26K+Food.jpg RESEARCH Bolsa Ave in Front of T&K Food Market 2017 (Source: Personal Collection) https://www.christinamhughes.com/about daily 0.75 2025-10-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a8c02e4b0fca75f5d623c/0ce8b835-04e5-493b-9167-b61d2fe60e0b/Screenshot+2025-07-28+at+5.06.04%E2%80%AFPM.jpg ABOUT I am currently an Assistant Professor affiliated with the Sociology Department and Urban Studies Concentration at Macalester College (Saint Paul, MN). My recently published work focuses on how global regimes of care organize the labor and movement of people within and across national borders. Currently, in my first book manuscript, Bad Refugees, and my collaborative mixed-methods evaluation work with a transformative justice organization in California prisons, I pursue two lines of questioning: How do states and markets classify refugees and migrants as either valuable or disposable? And when states and markets classify and punish people ‘on the move’ as incarcerable and deportable, how do they forge alternative systems of value and care? As a historical sociologist, my research integrates the legacy of colonial world-ordering to intervene in longstanding conversations on the imperial ‘edges’ of state activity: the categorization of deviance and social value, the relationship between xenophobia and citizenship, innovations in technologies of surveillance and social control, and resistance mounted by the racially criminalized in response to imperial-state violence. As an instructor, my teaching practice uses archival materials in creative ways to encourage students to think outside the confines of contemporary norms and assumptions. You can find my solo and collaborative published work in the British Journal of Sociology, the Journal of Transnational American Studies, International Migration Review, International Journal of Sociology, World Development, Demography, Population Research and Policy Review, and the anthology, The New Black Sociologists: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. https://www.christinamhughes.com/creative-work-1 daily 0.75 2025-10-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a8c02e4b0fca75f5d623c/1629664389647-C91F7KKSGQY8NJDZSZ74/Screen+Shot+2021-08-18+at+10.46.16+AM.png CREATIVE WORK Westminster Ave. at Brookhurst St., Garden Grove, Jan. 1957 (Source: Orange County Archives) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a8c02e4b0fca75f5d623c/1629663571011-800O52W6QBDDPWBF2Q9L/Garden+Grove+near+Westminster%2C+circa+1958+Looking+northeast+at+Garden+Grove+Blvd+just+east+of+Knott+Avenue%2C+circa+1958.+This+is+in+Garden+Grove%2C+on+the+border+of+Westminster..jpg CREATIVE WORK Garden Grove near Westminster, Circa 1958 (Source: Orange County Archives) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a8c02e4b0fca75f5d623c/1629663632617-XKQVGL1FDG4JL498QI95/Disneyland+sign%2C+Harbor+Blvd%2C+Anaheim%2C+1974.jpg CREATIVE WORK Mid-Century Style Disneyland Sign, Harbor Blvd, Anaheim, 1974 (Source: Orange County Archives) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a8c02e4b0fca75f5d623c/1629663561029-CFCIXM3YBOK83CA5JCOB/Little+Saigon+area%2C+1975.jpg CREATIVE WORK Aerial View of Little Saigon Area, 1975, with Pillbox-Style Housing Tracts (Source: Orange County Archives) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a8c02e4b0fca75f5d623c/1629664376809-PGTU5YBYDN6O4FRCGWGN/Screen+Shot+2021-08-18+at+10.46.38+AM.png CREATIVE WORK 1987 Photo of The Construction of Phước Lộc Thọ (Asian Garden Mall) (Source: Orange County Register) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a8c02e4b0fca75f5d623c/1629664289351-LTGQR87J9S1OCTMCUG2L/Screen+Shot+2021-08-03+at+3.44.49+PM.png CREATIVE WORK 1986 Profile on the First Vietnamese Police Officer in the United States (Source: Orange County Register) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/557a8c02e4b0fca75f5d623c/1629663546303-0KFC2JVQSLIQI3KCABLD/T%26K+Food.jpg CREATIVE WORK Bolsa Ave in Front of T&K Food Market 2017 (Source: Personal Collection)