Faculty Profiles

Miles, C., Price, M., Chacko, E., Blue, S. A., & Devine, J. A. (n.d.). Performing Security: A Confrontation between National Narrative and Migrant Bodies at the US-Mexico Border.

Swanson, K., Torres, R., & Blue, S. A. (2025). Child Guides and Migration in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region. In The Oxford Handbook of Child-Centered Approaches to Migrant Children (Vol. Chapter 26). Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.

Armina, E., & Blue, S. A. (2024). Evaluating the Use of Humanitarian Parole as a Border Management Strategy in the United States. Migration and Diversity, 3(4), 319–334. https://doi.org/doi.org/10.33182/md.v3i4.3438

Jokisch, B., & Blue, S. A. (2024). Increased Family and Child Migration to the United States from Latin America and the Caribbean: the Paradox of Protecting Children’s Rights. Journal of Latin American Geography, 23(1), 100–129. https://doi.org/10.1353/lag.2024.a929689

Hartsell, A., & Blue, S. A. (2023). Legal Bordering of Asylum through Liminality. Political Geography, 106, 102958. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2023.102958

Blue, S. A., & Hartsell, A. R. (2023). Producing ‘Illegality’: The Racialization of Mexican and Central American Asylum Seekers in the United States. Geographical Review, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/00167428.2023.2226174

Blue, S. A., Hartsell, A., Torres, R., & Flynn, P. (2023). The uneven geography of asylum and humanitarian relief: place-based precarity for Central American migrant youth in the United States judicial system. In (Un)Settled Sojourners in Cities (pp. 19–38). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003367055-2

Blue, S. A., Amy, T., Hilda, K., & Jason, D. (2022). Food Sovereignty and Property in Cuba and the United States. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 49(5), 1019–1036. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2021.1912026

Torres, R., Blue, S. A., Faria, C., Swanson, K., Segura, T., & Hernandez Hernandez, O. (2022). “Asylum is not for Mexicans”: Unaccompanied Youth and Racio-Governance at the US Border. Geopolitics. https://doi.org/doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2022.2086459

Blue, S. A., & Stycos, M. (2022). Local Newspaper Coverage of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Two Major Texas Cities: A Visual Comparison of Houston and El Paso. In COVID-19 and a World of Ad Hoc Geographies (pp. 539–557). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94350-9_31

Torres, R., Swanson, K., Faria, C., Blue, S. A., Segura, T., & Hernandez Hernandez, O. (2022). Bordering through care and control: Policing and sheltering Central American migrant youth in Mexico. Political Geography, Volume 98. https://doi.org/doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2022.102719

Blue, S. A., Hartsell, A., Torres, R. M., & Flynn, P. (2021). The Uneven Geography of Asylum and Humanitarian Relief: Place-Based Precarity for Central American Migrant Youth in the United States Judicial System. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 47(20), 4631–4650. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183x.2020.1732588

Blue, S. A. (2021). Gendered constraints on a strategy of regional mobility: Latino/a migration to post‐Katrina New Orleans. Area, 53(1), 175–182. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12687

Kurtz, H., Dittmer, J., Trauger, A., & Blue, S. A. (2021). Organic Certification as Assemblage: The Case of Cuban Honey. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 46(2), 299–313. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12419

Blue, S. A., Devine, J. A., Ruiz, M. P., McDaniel, K. M., Hartsell, A. R., Pierce, C. J., … Starnes, C. A. (2021). (Im)mobility at the US-Mexico border during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Social Sciences, 10(2). https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci10020047

Blue, S. A., Devine, J. A., Ruiz, M. P., McDaniel, K., Hartsell, A. R., Pierce, C. J., … Starnes, C. A. (2021). Im/Mobility at the US–Mexico Border during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Social Sciences, 10(2), 47. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci10020047

Thompson, A., Torres, R., Swanson, K., Blue, S. A., & Misael Hernández Hernández, Ó. (2019). Re-Conceptualising Agency in Migrant Children from Central America and Mexico. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 45(2), 235–252. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183x.2017.1404258

Blue, S. A. (2017). Book Review: Hispanic and Latino New Orleans: Immigration and Identity since the Eighteenth Century. The AAG Review of Books.

Blue, S. A., & Zappa, M. (2016). Twenty Years after the Storm: Hurricane Vulnerability in Bluefields, Nicaragua. The Southwestern Geographer, 19, 28–40.

Blue, S. A. (2015). Using Immigrant Interviews in Teaching Latin American Geography. In L. Estaville, E. Montalvo, & F. Akiwumi (Eds.), Teaching Ethnic Geography in the 21st Century. National Council on Geographic Education.

Swanson, K., Torres, R. M., Thompson, A., Blue, S. A., & Misael Hernández Hernández, O. (2015). A Year After Obama Declared a “Humanitarian Situation” at the Border, Child Migration Continues. NACLA Report on the Americas.

Blue, S. A. (2014). Book Review: Marketing without Advertising: Brand Preference and Consumer Choice in Cuba. The AAG Review of Books.

Blue, S. A. (2014, April). Book Review: Mapping Latin America: A Cartographic Reader. Journal of Historical Geography. Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2014.02.002

Holmes, M., & Blue, S. A. (2013). Chinatown, Ethnoburb, or Invisiburb?: Changing Settlement Patterns Of Chinese Migrants To Texas. Papers in Applied Geography, 36, 467–477.

Blue, S. A. (2013). Internationalism’s Remittances: The Impact of Temporary Migration on Cuban Society. International Journal of Cuban Studies, 5(1), 41–60.

Huish, R., & Blue, S. A. (2013). Understanding the Place of Cuban Internationalism. The International Journal of Cuban Studies, 5(1), 6–9.

Huish, R., & Blue, S. A. (Eds.). (2013). Special Issue: Cuban Internationalism. The International Journal of Cuban Studies (Vol. 5).

Blue, S. A. (2011). Book Review: Inside El Barrio: A Bottom-Up View of Neighborhood Life in Castro’s Cuba. Journal of Latin American Geography. Sterling, VA: Kumarian Press.

Blue, S. A., & Drever, A. I. (2011). Subcontracting Work via Social Networks: Migrant Latino Labor and the Re-Building of New Orleans. Population, Space & Place, 17(5), 489–504. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.627

Drever, A. I., & Blue, S. A. (2011). Surviving Sin Papeles in Post-Katrina New Orleans: An Exploration of The Challenges Facing Undocumented Immigrants in New and Re-Emerging Latino Destinations. Population, Space & Place, 17(1), 89–102. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.597

Blue, S. A. (2010). Cuban Medical Internationalism: Domestic and International Impacts. Journal of Latin American Geography, 9(1), 31–49. https://doi.org/10.1353/lag.0.0071

Blue, S. A. (2010). Book Review: Political Disaffection in Cuba’s Revolution and Exodus. American Journal of Sociology.

Blue, S. A. (2007). The Erosion of Racial Equality in the Context of Cuba’s Dual Economy. Latin American Politics and Society, 49(3), 35–68. https://doi.org/10.1353/lap.2007.0028

Blue, S. A. (2007). The Decline of Racial Equality in Post-Soviet Cuba. Encuentros Newsletter, 1–3.

Blue, S. A. (2007). Book Review: Becoming a Citizen: Incorporating Immigrants and Refugees in the United States and Canada. The Social Sciences Journal.

Blue, S. A., Smith, H., & Furuseth, O. (2007). Book Review: Latinos in the New South. Population, Space, and Place.

Blue, S. A. (2005). From Exiles to Transnationals?: Changing State Policy and the Emergence of Cuban Transnationalism. In D. Fernández (Ed.), Cuban Transnationalism. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida.

Blue, S. A. (2005). Including Women in Development: Guatemalan Refugees and Local NGOs. Latin American Perspectives, 32(5), 101–117. https://doi.org/10.1177/0094582x05279507

Blue, S. A. (2004). State Policy, Economic Crisis, Gender, and Family Ties: Determinants of Family Remittances to Cuba. Economic Geography, 80(1), 63–82. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1944-8287.2004.tb00229.x

Clark, W. A. V., & Blue, S. A. (2004). Race, Class and Segregation Patterns in U.S. Immigrant Gateway Cities. Urban Affairs Review, 39(6), 667–688.

Blue, S. A. (2004). The Social Cost of Remittances: Race and Income Equality in Contemporary Cuba. Paper Distributed at the Latin American Studies Association.