Sofía Stefani Espinoza Álvarez

Sofia Stefani Espinoza Alvarez is a Mexican author, activist and political analyst born May 5, 1989, in Muzquiz, Coahuila, who holds a bachelor's degree in criminal justice from Sul Ross State University (2011), studied law at the Universidad de Leon, and pursued graduate work in political analysis at the University of Guanajuato beginning in 2018. Her writing examines the relationship between migration, inequality and systems of justice, addressing institutional mechanisms of social control in immigration and criminal justice policy, in books including Immigration and the Law: Race, Citizenship, and Social Control (2018) and Hispanics in the U.S. Criminal Justice System: Ethnicity, Ideology, and Social Control (2018), the latter ranked first on BookAuthority's 2022 list of the twenty best immigration law books of all time. Since 2013 she has advocated for migrant rights through Empower Global and has contributed to Univision, HuffPost and El Universal. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/