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U.S. asks deposits of up to $15,000 for travelers from Malawi and Zambia
The Washington Post via MSN
Aug. 22, 2025
Greg Gondwe, a Zambian national and a journalism professor at California State University at San Bernardino and a researcher at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University, was quoted in an article about U.S.-bound tourist from Malawi and Zambia required to post deposits of up to $15,000.
“This policy may encourage corruption as people who are desperate to come will find unlawful means to pay the bond,” said Gondwe, who  does not need a visitor or business visa to stay in the U.S. But he said he did not think that would exempt him from additional scrutiny under the policy.
“Everyone I know is feeling uneasy and scared, and they will be scared to leave or travel to the U.S. on any visa,” he said. “It’s going to create separation between families.”

A grisly murder 100 years ago was the East Bay’s crime of the century
The Oaklandside
Aug. 22, 2025
Alicia Gutierrez-Romine, a professor of history at CSUSB who has studied the history of abortion criminalization, was interviewed for an article about the “Tule Marsh Murder,” which took place 100 years ago in the San Francisco Bay’s East Bay wetlands. The murder was never solved. “But the case’s twists and turns offer a window into the Bay Area of 100 years ago, when women’s reproductive care was criminalized, when white supremacist forces were on the rise, when forensic science was new, and when newspapers held extraordinary power to narrate, or distort, reality,” the article said.

Global Indigenous Struggles and Climate Change Activism 
The Oxford Handbook of Climate Action
James Fenelon (sociology) published a chapter for “The Oxford Handbook of Climate Action” that “highlights how Indigenous activism embodies existing alternative social structures that stand in conflict with states and globalized corporations’ continuing extractivism and destructive profiteering over ‘Mother Earth’ while in contrast, diverse Indigenous societies’ relations to land, sky, and sea maintain healthy environments for all forms of life.”

Integrating Imagination with Evidence When Writing
Creativity Research Journal
Anahid S. Modreka (psychology) published a study that “examines the extent to which writing facilitates opportunities for deeper learning in adolescence as achieved by utilizing both imagination and evidentiary reasoning, simultaneously.”

The Road to Debtors’ Probation: How Criminalizing Traffic Violations Increases State Control and Inequality in Georgia
Criminal Justice and Behavior
Andrea Giuffre (criminal justice) was a member of a team that published a study that “investigates the consequences of categorizing traffic violations as criminal in Georgia and the legal financial obligations imposed by courts.”

Analyzing Motives in Semi-Structured Interview Data: A Guide for the Social Sciences
Palgrave Macmillan
Rosario Rizzo Lara (sociology) co-authored a book that “advances the emerging work on using semi-structured interview data to analyze motives by providing the first book-length treatment of this underdeveloped methodological area in sociology and social science more broadly.”

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