Separated

Family and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid

De: William D. Lopez

Narrado por: Robert Fass

On a Thursday in November of 2013, Guadalupe Morales waited anxiously with her sister-in-law and their four small children. Every Latino man who drove away from their shared apartment above a small auto repair shop that day had failed to return - arrested, one by one, by ICE agents and local police. As the two women discussed what to do next, a SWAT team clad in body armor and carrying assault rifles stormed the room. As Guadalupe remembers it, "The soldiers came in the house. They knocked down doors. They threw gas. They had guns. We were two women with small children... The kids terrified, the kids screaming."

In Separated, William D. Lopez examines the lasting damage done by this daylong act of collaborative immigration enforcement in Washtenaw County, Michigan. Exploring the chaos of enforcement through the lens of community health, Lopez discusses deportation's rippling negative effects on families, communities, and individuals. Focusing on those left behind, Lopez reveals their efforts to cope with trauma, avoid homelessness, handle worsening health, and keep their families together as they attempt to deal with a deportation machine that is militarized, traumatic, implicitly racist, and profoundly violent.

©2019 Johns Hopkins University Press (P)2019 Tantor

A moving story and excellent scholarship

keep the tissues handy! left me feeling more connected to important parts of my community and with a lot more understanding of my undocumented friends. must read for any sort of public health interest

Highly recommend

I have learned a lot from this book, and the stories, anecdotes, and analyses in this book have left me thinking about the rights and experiences of people living in the United States, and how traits like the color of their skin and their language shape those experiences.

Fantastic!

Fantastic book. Very informational! Lopez does a great job describing the horrors of being separated from your family as a Latinx person in the U.S. and what it does to the Latin community. Very powerful and well written.