Events
Hispanic Heritage Celebration: Family and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid
Date and Time
Thursday, October 7, 2021 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Location
Grand River Room, Kirkhof Center
Description
Dr. William D. Lopez is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan School of Public Healthand the author of the book, Separated: Family and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid. Dr. William D. Lopez details the incredible strain that immigration raids place on Latino communities—and the families and friends who must recover from their aftermath. As a Clinical Assistant Professor, William teaches a range of public health classes, including “Health Impacts of Immigration Law Enforcement in the U.S.” This class focuses on the violence of immigration enforcement on the individual, family, and community levels and asks what we, as researchers and advocates, can do to address it. Themes include militarized immigration raids, ICE and local police collaboration, routinized fear, the stigma of being targeted by ICE, and the links between the immigration advocacy and the Black Lives Matter movement. His current public health research considers 1) the ways in which fear of immigration enforcement impacts health service utilization in mixed-status communities and 2) community responses to large scale immigration work raids.
This event also appears on the main events calendar tagged as hhc, immigration, and oma.
Information
For more information, please visit: Hispanic Heritage Celebration
Contact
Office of Multicultural Affairs at 616-331-2177 or [email protected].