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Austin Kocher
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Austin Kocher is an American political and legal geographer. Both political and legal geography are subsets of human geography, also known as anthropogeography, which examines the interactions between people and their environments.
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Dr. Kocher received his Ph.D. in geography in 2017 from the Ohio State University[1] and has focused his work and research on immigration, immigrant surveillance, asylum processes, deportation and detention in the United States.[2]
His work has been featured in the media in sources such as The Guardian,[3] CNN,[4] The Economist,[5] Last Week Tonight with John Oliver,[6] NPR,[7] and Forbes.[8]
Career
Kocher holds a faculty appointment at Syracuse University's Department of Geography,[9] is an affiliated expert for the Institute for Democracy, Journalism and Citizenship of the same university,[10] is a research fellow at The Center for Latin American and Latino studies, as well as a member and contributor to The Immigration Lab,[11] at American University,[12] and is an adjunct professor of the Geography of Climate Migration at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C..[13]
He also studied American Sign Language at Columbus State Community College and worked as an interpreter for the deaf for more than a decade.[14] He states he was a member of the United States Navy and was accepted to Navy SEAL training in 2000, later working as a Law Enforcement Specialist in Puerto Rico.[15] As a doctoral student in Geography at the Ohio State University, Austin was president of the campus group Bike OSU[16] and a member of the non-profit group Yay Bikes![17] which advocates for bicycle conditions, events and education in Columbus, Ohio.[18]
Selected publications
- Jones, R., Kocher, A., Sultana, F., Smiles, D., McSweeney, K., & Molnar, P. (2023). Interventions on public geographies. Political Geography.
- Hubbard, P., Koch, R., Kocher, A., Klosterkamp, S., & Valverde, M. (2023). Book review forum: Infrastructure. Urban Studies, 0(0).
- Davidson, L., Hlass, L., & Kocher. A. (2023) The Double Abandonment of Immigrant Youth: How the Special Immigrant Juvenile Status Program Harms Those It Was Designed to Protect. Georgetown Law Review.
- Kocher, A. (2023). Glitches in the Digitization of Asylum: How CBP One Turns Migrants’ Smartphones into Mobile Borders. Societies, 13(6), 149.
- Putnam Hart, J., & Kocher, A. (2022). Impacts of Teaching Critical Race Theory and Applying Contact Theory Methods to Student’s Cross-Cultural Competency in Diversity Courses. Teaching Sociology.
- Kocher, A. (2022). Welcoming the stranger in Trump’s America: Notes on the everyday processes of constructing and enduring sanctuary. Hospitality & Society, 12(2), 165-183.
- Kocher, A. (2022). ‘Studying Up’ the FOIA State (in Symposium on Margaret Kwoka’s “Saving the Freedom of Information Act”). Yale Journal on Regulation.
- Kocher, A. (2021). Court of Injustice: Law without Recognition in U.S. Immigration. Contemporary Sociology, 50(6), 507-509.
- Kocher, A. (2021). Migrant Protection Protocols and the Death of Asylum. Journal of Latin American Geography, 20(1), 249-258.
- Kocher, A., & Stuesse, A. (2020). Undocumented Activism and Minor Politics: Inside the Cramped Political Spaces of Deportation Defense Campaigns. Antipode, 53(2), 331-354.
Op-eds and essays
- Kocher, A. (2023). Growing Numbers of Afghan Migrants Face Deportation in Court. The Immigration Lab Blog.
- Kocher, A. (2023). Asylum Seekers Encounter a New Digital Border: Their Smartphones. The Immigration Lab Blog.
- Kocher, A. (2021). Will ‘protected areas’ really be safe from immigration enforcement? Probably not. The Hill.
- Unger, A.-T., & Kocher, A. (2021). Migrant Protection Protocols Along U.S.-Mexico Border Come to an End, but the Assault on Asylum Continues. Border Criminologies.
- Sperling, R., & Kocher, A. (2021). Lawsuit Claims LIBRE BY NEXUS ‘Cheats Immigrants,’ But Will Biden Administration Address Roots of Problem? Latino Rebels.
- Kocher, A. (2021). Biden ends policy forcing asylum-seekers to ‘remain in Mexico’ — but for 41,247 migrants, it’s too late. The Conversation.
- Kocher, A. (2020). Challenging State Narratives about Immigrant Criminality. Border Criminologies.
- Kocher, A. (2020). ICE Filed Over 100,000 New Cases and Clogged the Courts at the Peak of the Pandemic. Documented.
- Kocher, A. (2020). The swamp that needs draining now: It’s the immigration backlog ICE created through indiscriminate deportations. New York Daily News.
- Kocher, A. (2020). What’s behind Trump’s project to defund ‘anarchist jurisdictions?’. The Hill.
- Kocher, A. (2018). Blurring the Border: Immigration Enforcement and Solidarity in Ohio. The Public Eye.
- Kocher, A. (2018). Greasing the Deportation Machine: US Immigration Courts under Trump. Border Criminologies.
Selected media appearances
- Yay Bikes! Radio Interview
- C-Span Appearance and Article: "Austin Kocher on Immigration Court Backlogs and Asylum Process in the U.S".
- CNN Article: "These cell phones can’t make calls or access the internet. ICE is using them to track migrants"
- Border Report Article: Phones assigned to released migrants can’t make, take calls unless it’s ICE"
- The Economist Article: Deportations of undocumented immigrants are at a record low"
- Capital and Main Article: "Seeking to End “Juan Crow” Laws in the Next Congress"