"Public Anthropology" Written by AANIR Members

Public anthropology includes writing and other content intended for a wide public and/or non-academic audience. Pieces are listed alphabetically by first author's last name. Want to add your piece of public anthropology to the list? Contact anthropologistactionnetwork@gmail.com.

• Boehm, Deborah and Sarah Horton. “Anthropology in Unseen Spaces: Documenting the Human Costs of the US Security State.” Anthropology News. November 3.
• Castañeda, H. & Lopez, W. D.  Immigrant Communities in the Covid-19 Pandemic: Old and New Insights on Mobility, Bordering Regimes, and Social Inequality. Items: Insights from the Social Sciences. Social Science Research Council, October 29. https://items.ssrc.org/covid-19-and-the-social-sciences/disaster-studies/immigrant-communities-in-the-covid-19-pandemic-old-and-new-insights-on-mobility-bordering-regimes-and-social-inequality/   
• Castañeda, Heide. 2018. When Everyone Is a Suspect: How Vehicle Inspections Terrorize Immigrant Communities. TruthOut series “After the Raid: The Communal Trauma of Immigration Enforcement.” https://truthout.org/articles/when-everyone-is-a-suspect-how-vehicle-inspections-terrorize-immigrant-communities/  
• Duncan, W.; Heidbrink, L. and K. Yarris. 2018. Im/migration in the Era of Trump; Hot Spots. Cultural Anthropology.
• Duncan, Whitney L. and Sarah B. Horton. 2020.  “Serious Challenges and Potential Solutions for Immigrant Health During COVID-19.” Health Affairs Blog April 18, 2020. 
• Frank-Vitale, Amelia. 2019. “The Caravan Is Honduras: Hope and Death at the Border.” In Behind the Migrant Caravan: Ethnographic Updates from Central America. HotSpots. Cultural Anthropology. 
• Frank-Vitale, Amelia. 2019.  “You Want to See a Real Emergency, Mr. President? Visit Me in Honduras.” Washington Post. February 16, 2019.
• Frank-Vitale, Amelia. 2018. “From Caravan to Exodus, From Migration to Movement.” NACLA Report on the Americas.
• Frank-Vitale, Amelia. 2018. “I Live in Honduras, Where People Are in Constant Fear of Being Murdered. It’s No Wonder They Join Caravans.” Fortune, November 23, 2018. 
• Frank-Vitale, Amelia, and Blanca Cordero. 2019. “The Crime of Migrant Accompaniment?” Anthropology News Website, July 15, 2019.
• Frank-Vitale, Amelia, Wendy Vogt, and Martha Balaguera. 2019. “AMLO’s Political Prisoners: Mexico’s Move to Criminalize Accompaniment and Solidarity with Migrants in Transit.” Border Criminologies, September 6, 2019.
• Getrich, Christina M. and Ana Ortez-Rivera. 2018. ICE Was Like An Urban Legend Here in Maryland; Hot Spots. Cultural Anthropology. 
• Gomberg-Muñoz, Ruth and Sarah Horton. “IIRAIRA at 20: Still Punitive and Unequal.” The Huffington Post, September 30.
• Heidbrink, L. 2018. Care in Contexts of Child Detention; Hot Spots. Cultural Anthropology.
• Heyman, Josiah. 2020. The President and Immigration Law Series: The Consequences of the Free Rein of Enforcement on Borderlands Society. Just Security (website), Oct. 13, 2020. https://www.justsecurity.org/72742/the-president-and-immigration-law-series-the-consequences-of-the-free-rein-of-enforcement-on-borderlands-society/
• CMSONAIR | Josiah Heyman on Border Patrol Culture and a Positive Vision of the Borderlands. 2020.  https://cmsny.org/multimedia/cmsonair-josiah-heyman/ [Podcast; maybe belongs in the category below?]
• Heyman, Josiah [lead], et al., Amicus Curiae Brief of Border Scholars [on cross-border ties]
• Hernandez v. Mesa in federal court, up to Supreme Court, on cross-border Border Patrol Shooting.  https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/hernandez-v-mesa-2/ (also see Rodriguez v. Swartz 899 F.3d 719 for antecedent amicus brief of border scholars)
• Heyman, Josiah, Mark Lusk, and Amy Bach, on behalf of 20 UTEP faculty, “Boost border security by spending that $8B to cut drug crime in the U.S. and Latin America,” Dallas Morning News, March 22, 2019. https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2019/03/22/boost-border-security-by-spending-that-8b-to-cut-drug-crime-in-the-u-s-and-latin-america/
• Heyman, Josiah. 2017. Why Caution is Needed Before Hiring Additional Border Patrol Agents
• and ICE Officers. Washington, DC: American Immigration Council.  https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/why-caution-needed-hiring-additional-border-patrol-agents-and-ice-officers
• Heyman, Josiah. 2017. “Border Thinking: Exclude or Relate,” NACLA Border Wars Blog. http://nacla.org/blog/2017/02/27/border-thinking-exclude-or-relate
• Heyman, Josiah McC. 2016. “Public Policy Struggles: A View from the United States-Mexico Border,” Practicing Anthropology 38(1): 47-48.
• Heyman, Josiah McC. 2015. “Political-Ethical Dilemmas Participant Observed,” in Sam Beck and Carl A. Maida, eds., Public Anthropology in a Borderless World, pp. 118-143.  New York and Oxford: Berghahn. [Listed twice, here and articles/chapters, as it is a scholarly analysis of public anthropology in action.]
• Heyman, Josiah, Jeremy Slack, and Daniel Martinez. 2019. “Why Border Patrol Agents and CBP Officers Should Not Serve as Asylum Officers,” Center for Migration Studies, Essays, https://cmsny.org/publications/heyman-slack-martinez-062119/
• Heyman, Josiah, and Jeremy Slack. 2018. “Blockading Asylum Seekers at Ports of Entry at the US-Mexico Border Puts Them at Increased Risk of Exploitation, Violence, and Death.” Center for Migration Studies, Essays, http://cmsny.org/publications/heyman-slack-asylum-poe/
• Horton, Sarah. 2021. “Provide Economic Justice to All Immigrant Families in Third Stimulus Bill.” The Hill. January 11.
• Horton, Sarah. 2020. “Citizen Children Left Out of Coronavirus Relief Efforts Deserve a Lifeline.” The American Prospect. May 7. 
• Horton, Sarah, and Whitney Duncan. 2021. "Why the American Rescue Plan Should Provide Economic Stimulus to All Taxpaying Immigrants." Scholars Action Network. February 11, 2011.
• Horton, Sarah, and Whitney Duncan. 2020. “Provide Colorado’s Immigrant Families Rental Relief.” The Colorado Independent. May 1.
• Horton, Sarah and Whitney Duncan. 2020. “Expand Emergency Medicaid to Cover Comprehensive Covid-19 Treatment.” Scholars Strategy Network Brief.   
• Horton, Sarah. 2018. “The Red Underside of Blue States,” in Im/migration in the Era of Trump; Hot Spots. Cultural Anthropology.
• Horton, Sarah. 2016. “The Hole in Trump’s Wall.” The Huffington Post. September 9.
• Horton, Sarah. 2016. “Rethinking Arizona’s Identity Theft Laws.” The Huffington Post. May 23.
• Horton, Sarah. 2016. “How Agriculture Employers Arrange ‘Identity Loans’ to Evade Immigration and Labor Laws.” The Society Pages.
• Horton, Sarah. 2016. “How Agriculture Employers Arrange ‘Identity Loans’ to Evade Immigration and Labor Laws.” Scholars’ Strategy Network. 
• Horton, Sarah. 2016. “Equal Overtime Rules Could Save Lives.” San Diego Union-Tribune. April 6.
• Horton, Sarah, and Milena Melo. 2017. “Immigrant Labor Before and After Trump: An Interview with Sarah Horton.” American Anthropologist, June 14. 
• Horton, Sarah and Angela Stuesse. 2016. “Criminalizing Immigrants Hurts All Workers as IRCA Turns 30.” Daily Kos. November 3. dailykos.com/story/2016/11/3/1590562/-Criminalizing-Immigrants-Hurts-All-Workers-as-IRCA-Turns-30
• Horton, Sarah, Yarris, Kristin and Whitney Duncan. 2018. “Public Charge Provisions Hurt Citizen Children Too.” The Hill. December 9. 
• Horton, Sarah, Yarris, Kristin and Whitney Duncan. 2018. “Immigrant Communities and the Public Charge Rule.” Anthropology News. October 29.
• Martínez, Daniel E., Josiah Heyman, and Jeremy Slack. 2020. “Border Enforcement Developments Since 1993 and How to Change CBP,” Center for Migration Studies, Essays, https://cmsny.org/publications/border-enforcement-developments-since-1993-and-how-to-change-cbp/
• Rotabi, K. S. & Monico, C. (2020, July 3). Feature: 20 Facts That You Should Know About Current Immigration Policies and Procedures Including Child Separations, Loss of Children in the System, and Asylum Seeking. National Association of Social Workers California. https://naswcanews.org/feature-20-facts-that-you-should-know-about-current-immigration-policies-and-procedures-including-child-separations-loss-of-children-in-the-system-and-asylum-seeking/
• Monico, C. (2019, June 21). Is cutting Central American aid going to help stop the flow of migrants? The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/is-cutting-central- american-aid-going-to-help-stop-the-flow-of-migrants-118806
• Monico, C. (2018, August 14). The border crisis tests our moral decency. The News and Record. https://www.greensboro.com/opinion/columns/carmen-monico-the-border-crisis-tests-our-moral-decency/article_080f6815-d3bb-5756-9485-848872687ddd.html
• Monico, C. (2017, March 27). Educating children in Guatemala before they decide to migrate to the U.S. border. The Conversation: Academic rigor, journalistic flair. https://theconversation.com/educating-children-in-guatemala-before-they-decide-to- migrate-to-the-us-border-74680
• Monico, C. (2016). Dr. Monico's Fulbright Research Project on Youth-At-Risk in Guatemala – A transformative evaluation in partnership with the Universidad del Valle de Guatemala [Online blog]. https://monicofulbright.wordpress.com/
• Nuñez-Janes, Mariela, Mario Ovalle, and Stephanie Plancarte. 2018.  “Creating Sanctuary: Practices of Acompañamiento/Creando Santuario: Practicando Acompañamiento.” In Im/migration in the Trump Era, edited by Whitney Duncan, Lauren Heidbrink, and Kristin Yarris. Cultural Anthropology, 
• Salyer, J.C.  2018. "Postelection Revanchist Anti-Immigration Policy," in Duncan, Whitney, Heidbrink, Lauren and Yarris, Kristin. "Im/migration in the Trump Era." Hot Spots, Cultural Anthropology.
• Shorack, Marna, Elizabeth G. Kennedy, and Amelia Frank-Vitale. 2020. “A State of Mistrust.” NACLA Report on the Americas 52 (4): 404–9. 
• Slack, Jeremy, Daniel Martinez, and Josiah Heyman. 2018. “Immigration Authorities Systematically Deny Medical Care for Migrants Who Speak Indigenous Languages,” Center for Migration Studies, Essays, http://cmsny.org/publications/slackmartinezheyman-medical-care-denial/
• Statz, M. and L. Heidbrink. 2018. Migration as Clickbait. Anthropology News. DOI: 10.1111/AN.760.
• Stephen, Lynn. A helpline connects Indigenous immigrants to crucial COVID-19 information, High Country News. November 30, 2020. https://www.hcn.org/issues/52.12/indigenous-affairs-what-works-a-helpline-connects-Indigenous-immigrants-to-crucial-covid-19-information
• Stephen, Lynn. Farmworkers face unique challenges in a global pandemic. PSU Vanguard. September 30, 2020. https://psuvanguard.com/farmworkers-face-unique-challenges-in-a-global-pandemic/
• Stephen, Lynn. Oregon farmworkers face COVID challenge, new study says. Around the O, September 25, 2020. https://around.uoregon.edu/content/oregon-farmworkers-face-covid-challenges-new-study-says
• Stephen, Lynn. Estudio expone condiciones peligrosas campesinos de Oregon están expuestos. Univision, Portland, Oregon, Sept. 23, 2020. http://kunptv.com/news/local/estudio-expone-condiciones-peligrosas-campesinos-de-oregon-estn-expuestos?fbclid=IwAR3-K_6krls19hC1hymCAZVNtStDneayNM0zPglGoyLkk6aooFG3cBj7LVo
• Stephen, Lynn. Latin American Women are disappearing and dying under lockdown. The Conversation. August 24, 2020. https://theconversation.com/latin-american-women-are-disappearing-and-dying-under-lockdown-143791
• Stephen, Lynn. Silence and Gendered Violence in the COVID-19 Pandemic. The Globe Post. July 9, 2020. https://theglobepost.com/2020/07/09/coronavirus-gendered-violence
• Stephen, Lynn. Curious: Why People Try To Enter The U.S. (Jefferson Public Radio, Sept. 6, 2019)
• Stephen, Lynn. Trump’s Plan to Indefinitely Detain Families Seeking Asylum is No Solution (The Globe Post, Sept. 4, 2019)
• Stuesse, Angela. 2020. “Coronavirus can afflict the powerful. Yet food workers remain the most vulnerable.” Washington Post. October 4. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/10/04/covid-19-can-afflict-powerful-yet-food-workers-remain-most-vulnerable/
• Stuesse, Angela. 2020. “Muertes que duelen, vidas que importan.” La Jornada del Campo (supplement of Mexico City’s largest newspaper, La Jornada). No. 153, June 20. https://www.jornada.com.mx/2020/06/20/delcampo/articulos/muertes-duelen.html
• Stuesse, Angela. 2020. “He Worked for Better Conditions at his Chicken Plant. Then the Coronavirus Took his Life.” USA Today. May 12. https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2020/05/12/coronavirus-takes-poultry-worker-celso-mendoza-column/3109292001/
• Stuesse, Angela. 2019. “In Criminalizing Immigrants, Americans’ Own Humanity is at Stake.” The Daily Kos. December 22. dailykos.com/stories/2019/12/22/1907333/-In-Criminalizing-Immigrants-Americans-Own-Humanity-is-at-Stake
• Stuesse, Angela. 2019. “The Connection between the Poultry on Your Holiday Table and Trump’s Deportation Machine.” The Washington Post. November 26. www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/11/26/connection-between-poultry-your-holiday-table-trumps-deportation-machine/
• Stuesse, Angela. 2019. “Workplace Raids are Not the Answer.” The Progressive. August 20 (reprinted 13 times for an additional audience of 646,922). https://progressive.org/dispatches/criminalizing-undocumented-workers-harms-all-stuesse-190820/
• Stuesse, Angela. 2019. “The poultry industry recruited them. Now ICE raids are devastating their communities.” The Washington Post. August 9 (80k page views in 2019). washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/08/09/poultry-industry-recruited-them-now-ice-raids-are-devastating-their-communities/
• Stuesse, Angela. 2019. “Vengeance Drives Trump Immigration Policy.” The Progressive. April 24 (reprinted 10 times for an additional audience of 817,253). https://progressive.org/op-eds/vengeance-drives-trump-immigration-policy-stuesse-190424/
• Stuesse, Angela. 2017. “Bearing Witness to Immigration Raids in the Trump Era.” Huffington Post. February 16. huffingtonpost.com/entry/bearing-witness-to-immigration-raids-in-the-trump-era_us_58a5d67be4b0b0e1e0e2079a
• Stuesse, Angela, Mat Coleman, and Sarah Horton. 2016. “Driving While Latino.” Huffington Post. September 29. huffingtonpost.com/entry/driving-while-latino_us_57ed6ce4e4b07f20daa1052f
• Stuesse, Angela. 2016. “Why We Wear Diapers at Work.” Huffington Post. May 20. huffingtonpost.com/entry/why-we-wear-diapers-at-work_us_573f6ad3e4b0d1507778448e
• Stuesse, Angela and Shannon Speed. 2016. “Georgia’s Ban on Undocumented College Students Puts State on Wrong Side of History.” Atlanta Journal-Constitution. February 4. http://getschooled.blog.myajc.com/2016/02/04/georgias-ban-on-undocumented-college-students-puts-state-on-wrong-side-of-history/
• Yarris, K.; L. Heidbrink; and W. Duncan. 2016. Protecting Undocumented Students Post-Election: From meeting to action. Working together to support our students. Anthropology News.