She is co-editor of The Companion Guide to Political Geography, and has published in the area of immigration, urban geography and transnational studies in journals such as Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Society and Space, Antipode, Political Geography, Urban Geography and Economic Geography. She is currently completing a monograph entitled, Transnationalism and the Politics of Space, for Temple University Press. Mitchell’s latest research focuses on the impact of transnational migration on conceptions of education, with a particular emphasis on how children are educated to become citizens of a particular nation-state. This ongoing research has been funded by the Simpson Center of the University of Washington, the Spencer Foundation, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.