The 2023 C. Wright Mills Award Committee selected Dr. Asad L. Asad’s book, Engage and Evade: How Latino Immigrant Families Manage Surveillance in Everyday Life, Princeton University Press, as this year's winner.

Dr. Waverly Duck, Chair of the 2023 C. Wright Mills Award Committee said of Dr. Asad's work:

Drawing from interviews with sixty adults from twenty eight Latino immigrant families in Dallas, analysis of the American Time Use Survey, and ethnographic observations of immigration courtrooms, Engage & Evade powerfully captures the precarity immigrants face in everyday life. It highlights their struggles navigating family, citizenship, workplaces, healthcare, employment, education, and legal systems, revealing the burden of uncertainty and legal precarity under constant surveillance. Engage & Evade reveals new insights, and the preface, based on the author's experiences, adds a layer of empathy, emphasizing the universal struggles of immigrants within the American working class. This book is utterly deserving of the C. Wright Mills Book Award, and I am honored to have read it.

Congratulations, Dr. Asad! The award was presented at the 2024 Awards Ceremony on Saturday, August 10. Click here for a full listing of the 2023 finalists. Click here for a list of past winners.