Recordings & Information from July 16, 2020 DWMC Webinar with Dr. William Arrocha:
Migrants as Pawns & Foes: How the Trump Administration Dehumanizes Migration
ABOUT DR. WILLIAM ARROCHA
William Arrocha, PhD
Associate Professor
International Policy and Development
Middlebury Institute of International Studies
https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/people/william-arrocha
Dr. Arrocha is the co-author with Steven Bender of Compassionate Migration and Regional Policy in the Americas (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).
References from Dr. William arrocha’s lecture
Dr. Arrocha and the DWMC recommend the following organizations to support the work being done on behalf of migrants and helping to create a more compassionate approach to migration.
ACLU – American Civil Liberties Union aclu.org
LULAC – League of United Latin American Citizens lulac.org
CRLA - CA Rural Legal Assistance crla.org
WLC - Watsonville Law Center can be contacted here.
Dr. Arrocha is the co-author with Steven Bender of Compassionate Migration and Regional Policy in the Americas (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).
He has also recommends the following two articles that go into more depth on the issues discussed in his lecture:
Combating xenophobia and hate through compassionate migration: the present struggle of irregular migrants escaping fear and extreme poverty. Crime, Law and Social Change (April, 2019). Available here.
From Arizona’s S.B. 1070 to Georgia’s H.B. 87 and Alabama’s H.B. 56: Exacerbating the Other and generating new discourses and practices of segregation. California Western Law Review: Vol. 48: No. 2, Article 3 (2012). Available here.