Faculty Accomplishments

David Hernández, Serin Houston, Avery Allen ’20, and Sofia Rivera ’18. (2018). Entrapped: Visiting Migrant Detainees in Western Massachusetts. Latino Studies 16, 250-258.

Hernández, D. (11/28/16) "A 'Crisis' of His Own Making: Trump and Immigration." [Blog Post]. Border Criminologies Blog, Faculty of Law in the University of Oxford. Retrieved from: https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/research-subject-groups/centre-criminology/centreborder-criminologies/blog/2016/11/crisis-his-own-0

Hernández, D.(  11/14/16). "The Corrections Industry's Larger Footprint: Migrant Detention" [Blog Post]. Border Wars. Retrieved from: http://nacla.org/blog/2016/11/14/corrections-industry%27s-larger-footprint-migrant-detention

David Hernández, Elia Nada, Jodi Kim, Shana L. Redmond, Dylan Rodríguez, and Sarita Echavez See. Critical Ethnic Studies: A Reader. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016.

Delivered the closing keynote address, “The Whiplash of Immigration Enforcement: Reflections on ’the Trump Era,’” at the Western New England Law Review Symposium, “New Abolitionism: Ending Civil Immigration Detention and Criminalization—Policy, History, and Legal Strategies.” February 27, 2021.

Delivered the research presentation, "Outsourcing Migrant Control: 100 Years of Private Prisons,” at the Center for the Study of the Southwest at Texas State University on September 24, 2020.

Published a letter in the New York Times on August 16, 2020, "The Moves Against the Census: A reader says the government's actions obscure accuracy and harm the country." New York Times (print and online editions). https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/16/opinion/letters/census-race.html?fbclid=IwAR1F69G-iwD-C6Bl2QxvEIhjE14rF2YWFGFrpC4phgb8MYtjxjGqUqR106Q

Interviewed for the radio show, “2020 Talks” by Pacifica Network and the Public News Service.  "Earth Day” and aired April 22, 2020.

Delivered the research presentation, "Smothering Asylum: Kids, Cages, and Political Currency in Migrant Processing," at the Issues in Mental Health Policy Seminar at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City on January 29, 2020.

Presented twice at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in November: (1) first delivering a research presentation, "From OTMs (other than Mexicans) to YAMS (you're all Mexicans): Conflating Latina/o/x Migrants,” at the Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies, on November 14, 2019; (2) as a panelist for the Social Science Matters series, "Critical Issues for the 2020 Election Cycle: U.S. Immigration Policy,” on November 19, 2019.