Heide Castañeda and William D. Lopez explore historical connections and future impacts of the pandemic on border management and human mobility. Focusing on immigrants in the United States, the authors show how in addition to limitations on their movements, punitive policies enacted in the past year have further reduced healthcare access for undocumented migrants and their mixed-status families, while pandemic-fueled anti-immigrant discourse has further marginalized these groups.
Heide Castañeda
Heide Castañeda is a professor of anthropology at the University of South Florida. Her research areas include political and legal anthropology, medical anthropology, borders, migration, citizenship, and policing, focusing on the United States, Mexico, Germany, and Morocco. She is the author of Borders of Belonging: Struggle and Solidarity in Mixed-Status Immigrant Families (Stanford University Press, 2019) and coeditor of Unequal Coverage: The Experience of Health Care Reform in the United States (New York University Press, 2018).