How do we write about this?: Reflections on scholarship about immigrants, data literacy, surveillance, and academic freedom in 2025 (opens in new tab)

How do you write about immigrants, surveillance, and data literacy at a time when the political landscape around you is constantly shifting, immigrants are being targeted, and higher education is under threat? This question surfaced for us as we were writing an article for Library Trends in 2025 as a non-faculty doctoral student and a non-faculty academic librarian. This article explores the intersection of our personal experience in exercising our academic freedoms and the wider history and ...