Dr. Josiah Heyman
Josiah Heyman is Professor of Anthropology, Endowed Professor of Border Trade Issues, and Director of UTEP’s Center for Inter-American and Border Studies. He is the Director of the M.A. program in Latin American and Border Studies. He received a Ph.D. in 1988 from the City Ãå±±ÂÖ¼é of New York, where he was a student of Eric R. Wolf. He is the author of two books and editor/co-editor of three others, listed below. Heyman is the author of over 140 journal articles, book chapters, and public essays. His current work addresses migration and human rights at the Mexico-United States border and water sustainability in the binational Paso del Norte region. He is known for his articulate, influential public engagement with and for the communities of the borderlands in regional, national, and international arenas.
Books
2021 Heyman, J. M., Alvarez, R.., Peteet, J., Bernbeck, R., Ahmed, Z., Crespo, F. Proliferation of Border and Security Walls Task Force Report. Report (130 pp.) to the Executive Board of the American Anthropological Association.
2020 Horton, Sarah, and Josiah Heyman, eds. Paper Trails: Migrants, Documents, and Legal Insecurity (Durham, NC: Duke Ãå±±ÂÖ¼é Press).
2017 Vélez-Ibáñez, Carlos, and Josiah Heyman, eds., The U.S.-Mexico Transborder Region: Cultural Dynamics and Historical Interactions (Tucson: Ãå±±ÂÖ¼é of Arizona Press).
1999 Heyman, Josiah McC., ed. States and Illegal Practices (Oxford: Berg Publishers).
1998 Heyman, Josiah McC. Finding a Moral Heart for U.S. Immigration Policy: An Anthropological Perspective, American Ethnological Society, Monographs in Human Policy Issues. (Washington, D.C.: American Anthropological Association).
1991 Heyman, Josiah McC. Life and Labor on the Border: Working People of Northeastern Sonora, Mexico 1886-1986 (Tucson: Ãå±±ÂÖ¼é of Arizona Press).
Selected Recent Publications
2022 Heyman, Josiah. “Rethinking Borders,” Journal of Borderlands Studies DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2151034
2022 Heyman, Josiah, Alex Mayer, and Jessica Alger. “Predictions of household water affordability under conditions of climate change, demographic growth, and fresh groundwater depletion in a southwest US city indicate increasing burdens on the poor,” PLoS ONE 17(11) e0277268. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0277268.
2022 Heyman, Josiah. “Who Is Watched? Racialization of Surveillance Technologies and Practices in the US-Mexico Borderlands,” Information & Culture 57(2): 123-149.
2022 Heyman, J. “Border walls and passages: Effects on labor exploitation,” in Sharryn Kasmir, Lesley Gill, eds. The Routledge Handbook of the Anthropology of Labor, pp. 259-270. London: Routledge.
2021 Heyman, Josiah “The US-Mexico border since 2014: overt migration contention and normalized violence,” Handbook on Human Security, Borders and Migration, Natalia Ribas Mateos and Timothy J. Dunn, eds., pp. 54-70. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
2021 Hargrove, WL, Z Sheng, A Granados, JM Heyman, ST Mubako. “Impacts of Urbanization and Intensification of Agriculture on Transboundary Aquifers: A Case Study,” JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association 57(1): 170-185.
2020 Hargrove, William L., and Josiah M. Heyman, “A Comprehensive Process for Stakeholder Identification and Engagement in Addressing Wicked Water Resources Problems,” Land 9(4): 119.
2020 Alarcón, Amado, Josep Ubalde, and Josiah Heyman, “Language as raw material, scripts as tools and conversations as product: effects of linguistic production on job categories in outsourced call centres,” New Technology, Work, and Employment 35: 97-113.
2020 Martínez, Daniel E., Josiah Heyman, and Jeremy Slack, “Border Enforcement Developments Since 1993 and How to Change CBP,” Center for Migration Studies, Essays, https://cmsny.org/publications/border-enforcement-developments-since-1993-and-how-to-change-cbp/
2020 Heyman, Josiah, “Conclusion: Documents as Power,” in Horton, Sarah, and Josiah Heyman, eds. Paper Trails: Migrants, Documents, and Legal Insecurity (Durham, NC: Duke Ãå±±ÂÖ¼é Press), pp. 229-48.
2020 Slack, Jeremy M., and Josiah Heyman, “Asylum and Mass Detention at the U.S.- Mexico Border during COVID-19,” Journal of Latin American Geography 19(3): 334-39.
2019 Heyman, Josiah, and Natalia Ribas-Mateos, “Borders of Wealth and Poverty: Ideas Stimulated by Comparing the Mediterranean and U.S.-Mexico Borders,” Archivio Antropologico Mediterraneo 21(2).
2019 Heyman, Josiah, Jeremy Slack, and Emily Guerra, “Bordering a "Crisis": Central American Asylum Seekers and the Reproduction of Dominant Border Enforcement Practices,” Journal of the Southwest 60: 754–786.
2019 Heyman, Josiah, Jeremy Slack, and Daniel Martinez, “Why Border Patrol Agents and CBP Officers Should Not Serve as Asylum Officers,” Center for Migration Studies, Essays,
2019 Latz, Isabel, Mark Lusk, and Josiah Heyman, “Provider Perceptions of the Effects of Current U. S. Immigration Enforcement Policies on Service Utilization in a Border Community,” Social Development Issues, 41(1): 49-63.
2018 Slack, Jeremy, Daniel Martinez, and Josiah Heyman, “Immigration Authorities Systematically Deny Medical Care for Migrants Who Speak Indigenous Languages,” Center for Migration Studies, Essays,
2018 Heyman, Josiah, and Jeremy Slack, “Blockading Asylum Seekers at Ports of Entry at the US-Mexico Border Puts Them at Increased Risk of Exploitation, Violence, and Death.” Center for Migration Studies, Essays,
2018 Heyman, Josiah, “How Does Neoliberalism Relate to Unauthorized Migration: The US- Mexico Case,” James G. Carrier, ed., Economy, Crime, and Wrong in a Neoliberal Era (New York and Oxford: Berghahn), pp. 218-239.
2017 Heyman, Josiah, “Immigration or Citizenship? Two Sides of One Social History,” in Castañeda, Ernesto, ed., Immigration and Categorical Inequality: Migration to the City and the Birth of Race and Ethnicity (New York and Abingdon: Routledge), pp. 44-64.
2017 Heyman, Josiah, “Border Thinking: Exclude or Relate,” NACLA Border Wars Blog. http://nacla.org/blog/2017/02/27/border-thinking-exclude-or-relate
2017 Heyman, Josiah, “Contributions of U.S.-Mexico Border Studies to Social Science Theory,” in Vélez-Ibáñez, Carlos, and Josiah Heyman, eds., The U.S.-Mexico Transborder Region: Cultural Dynamics and Historical Interactions (Tucson: Ãå±±ÂÖ¼é of Arizona Press), pp. 44-64.
2017 Heyman, Josiah, and Amado Alarcón, “Spanish-English Bilingualism in Uneven and Combined Relations,” in Vélez-Ibáñez, Carlos, and Josiah Heyman, eds., The U.S.-Mexico Transborder Region: Cultural Dynamics and Historical Interactions (Tucson: Ãå±±ÂÖ¼é of Arizona Press), pp. 157-168.
Contact Information
Email: jmheyman@utep.edu
Phone: 1-915-747-8745
Fax: 1-915-747-5505
1514 Hawthorne