Researchers

Daniel E. Martínez received a PhD from the School of Sociology at the University of Arizona in May of 2013, and holds a MA in Sociology and MS in Mexican American Studies, also from the University of Arizona. His research and teaching interests include unauthorized migration, criminology, juvenile delinquency, and race and ethnicity. He is one of three co-principal investigators of the Migrant Border Crossing Study, a Ford Foundation-funded research project that involves interviewing recently deported unauthorized migrants about their experiences crossing the U.S-Mexico border and residing in the United States. Martínez also does extensive research on undocumented border crosser deaths along the Arizona-Sonora border. He currently working on a project examining the social ecology of migration corridors in southern Arizona.