Jared Van Ramshorst

Professor

 

Fields

• Borders
• Immigration
• Latina/o/x Studies
• Law and Policy
• Qualitative Methods

Contact Information

• E-mail: jvanrams@calpoly.edu

Education

• Ph.D., Geography, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University (2020)
• M.A., Geography, San Diego State University (2014)
• B.A., History, California State University, Fullerton (2012)

 

About Jared

Dr. Jared P. Van Ramshorst is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. As an immigration scholar, he is interested in how law and policy shape Latina/o/x immigrants’ mobility and subjectivity as well as the ways in which cities and states respond to recent arrivals of Latina/o/x immigrants. His research focuses, in particular, on immigration from Central and South America to and toward the United States, through which he grapples with questions over international borders, citizenship, immigration enforcement, policing, race and ethnicity, and violence. His work has appeared in journals such as Borders in Globalization Review, Geopolitics, and Urban Geography. Prior to joining Cal Poly, he taught at Kean University in New Jersey and College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts.

Selected Publications

Van Ramshorst, J.P. (2024). Positionality. In B. Warf (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Human Geography (pp. 1–4). Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-25900-5_240-1

Van Ramshorst, J.P., and Walker, M.A. (2022). Subordinating space: Immigration enforcement, hierarchy, and the politics of scale in Central America and Mexico. Borders in Globalization Review 3(2), 14–25. https://doi.org/10.18357/bigr32202220403

Van Ramshorst, J.P., and Walker, M.A. (2022). Mexico’s southern border and beyond: Assembling new understandings. Borders in Globalization Review 3(2), 11–13. https://doi.org/10.18357/bigr32202220763

Van Ramshorst, J.P. (2021). Expanding exclusion: Migration, asylum, and transnational death in Mexico and the U.S. In J. Longazel and M.C. Hallett (eds.), Migration and mortality: Social death, dispossession, and survival in the Americas (pp. 207–221). Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

Van Ramshorst, J.P. (2020). Studying migration in the time of Trump: Power, positionality, and formal politics in the field. The Professional Geographer 72(2), 264–271. https://doi.org/10.1080/00330124.2019.1662819