SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
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2025 Frank-Vitale, Amelia, and Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof. “Honduras, Gangs, and Asylum Law.” Latin American Perspectives 52, no. 2 (March 1, 2025): 105–24.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0094582X251321833.
2025 Frank-Vitale, Amelia. “The weaknesses of Trump’s migration diplomacy can be seen is his attempts to bully Latin American leaders.” The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 12, 2025.
2025 Arastu, Nermeen, Linda Bosniak, Barbara Buckinx, Amelia Frank-Vitale, and Shannon Gleeson. “Distilling Solidarity” 119 (January 2025): 7–12.
https://doi.org/10.1017/aju.2025.4.
2023 Frank-Vitale, Amelia. “Coyotes, caravans, and the Central American migrant smuggling continuum.” Trends in Organized Crime.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12117-022-09480-z
2022 Frank-Vitale, Amelia. “Particular Social Group Trouble: Producing Categories of ‘Unworthy’ Asylum Seekers.” Annals of Anthropological
Practice. https://doi.org/10.1111/napa.12181.
2022 Frank-Vitale, Amelia. “Writer’s Block” In “Taking Note: Complexities and Ambiguities in Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes,” American Ethnologist website,
26 August 2022.
2020 Frank-Vitale, Amelia, and Juan José Martínez d’Aubuisson. “The Generation of the Coup: Honduran Youth at Risk and of Risk.” The Journal of Latin
American and Caribbean Anthropology 25, no. 4: 552–68. https://doi.org/10.1111/jlca.12512.
2020 Shorack, Marna, Elizabeth G. Kennedy, and Amelia Frank-Vitale. “A State of Mistrust.” NACLA Report on the Americas 52 (4): 404–9.
November 4, 2020.
2020 Frank-Vitale, Amelia. “Stuck in Motion: Inhabiting the Space of Transit in Central American Migration,” The Journal of Latin American and
Caribbean Anthropology 25, no. 1: 67–83, https://doi.org/10.1111/jlca.12465.
2020 Frank-Vitale, Amelia. “Such a Thing as the American Dream: On Immigration, Affect, and the Election of Donald Trump.” Public
Anthropologist 2 (2): 158–76. https://doi.org/doi:10.1163/25891715-bja10004.
2020 Frank-Vitale, Amelia, and Margarita Nuñez Chaim. “‘Lady Frijoles’: Las Caravanas Centroamericanas y El Poder de La Hípervisibilidad de La
Migración Indocumentada.” EntreDiversidades. Revista de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades 7 (1 (14)): 37–61.
https://doi.org/10.31644/ED.V7.N1.2020.A02.
2019 Frank-Vitale, Amelia. “Rolling the Windows Up: On (Not) Researching Violence and Strategic Distance.” Geopolitics 26, no. 1: 139–58.
https://doi.org/10.1080/14650045.2019.1662396.
2019 Frank-Vitale, Amelia. “The Caravan Is Honduras: Hope and Death at the Border.” In Behind the Migrant Caravan: Ethnographic Updates from
Central America. HotSpots. Cultural Anthropology.
2019 Frank-Vitale, Amelia. “You Want to See a Real Emergency, Mr. President? Visit Me in Honduras.” Washington Post. February 16, 2019.
2018 Frank-Vitale, Amelia. “I Live in Honduras, Where People Are in Constant Fear of Being Murdered. It’s No Wonder They Join Caravans.” Fortune,
November 23, 2018.
2018 Frank-Vitale, Amelia. “From Caravan to Exodus, From Migration to Movement.” NACLA Report on the Americas, November 20, 2018.
2018 Frank-Vitale, Amelia. “Home in Honduras: Snapshots of Life after Deportation.” World Policy Journal 35, no. 2 (June 1, 2018): 112–17.