Amy Reed-Sandoval In The News
The Hill
Large numbers of U.S. Latinos are signing up for jobs in immigration enforcement. Roughly half of all U.S. Border Patrol agents self-identify as Latino, as do 30 percent of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents.
Filosofie Magazine
There鈥檚 an intimacy in the way people experience borders,鈥 says Amy Reed-Sandoval, an associate professor of philosophy at the 性视界传媒. 鈥淏orders help shape people鈥檚 identities . I once spoke to a woman who had traveled from Canada to New Mexico for an abortion. It was a horrible situation where the baby wouldn鈥檛 survive the birth. Because of the controversy surrounding abortion in the United States, she was afraid of being questioned at the border and sent back. She said afterward that the fear of the imaginary border agent had robbed her of the opportunity to grieve for her unborn child. The border changed this woman鈥檚 feelings and her life story.鈥
San Bernardino Sun
In 1988, author and women鈥檚 studies professor Evelyn Torton Beck published an article entitled 鈥淭he Politics of Jewish Invisibility鈥 in which she lamented 鈥渢he silence surrounding the recognition that anti-Semitism, whose shadow continues to fall on women鈥檚 lives, is, or ought to be, a feminist issue.鈥