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Hern谩ndez, D., B. Marquez Aldana, I. Anadon, and J. Eason (2020, May 20). "The Hotspots in Hiding: COVID-19 and Immigrant Detention."


Hern谩ndez, D. (9/10/19) "鈥3 Mexican Countries鈥: When All Latin American Migrants Become Mexicans" 


Hern谩ndez, D. (2019) "Carceral Shadows: Entangled Lineages and Merging Technologies of Immigrant Detention," In Robert Chase (ed.), Caging Borders and Carceral States: Incarcerations, Immigration Detentions, and Resistance (57-92) University of North Carolina Press.


Hern谩ndez, D. (Summer 2019). "Corruption Behind Bars." NACLA: Report on the Americas. Vol. 51, No. 2. 134-140.


Hern谩ndez, D. (11/8/18). "Habitual Punishment: Family Detention and the Status Quo." EuropeNow. Retrieved from


Hern谩ndez, D. (8/16/2018). "Punishing Lawfulness: Trump's Assault on Authorized Migration." NACLA.


Hern谩ndez, 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: 


Hern谩ndez, D.(  11/14/16). "The Corrections Industry's Larger Footprint: Migrant Detention" [Blog Post]. Border Wars.


David Hern谩ndez, Elia Nada, Jodi Kim, Shana L. Redmond, Dylan Rodr铆guez, and Sarita Echavez See.  Durham: Duke University Press, 2016.


Delivered the closing keynote address, 鈥淭he Whiplash of Immigration Enforcement: Reflections on 鈥檛he Trump Era,鈥欌 at the Western New England Law Review Symposium, 鈥淣ew Abolitionism: Ending Civil Immigration Detention and Criminalization鈥擯olicy, History, and Legal Strategies.鈥 February 27, 2021.