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.
William D. Lopez
William D. Lopez is a clinical assistant professor at the University of Michigan School of Public Health and teaches on the health impacts of immigration enforcement and police violence. He is the author of the book, Separated: Family and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019).