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Hernández, 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.


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


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


Hernández, 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: 


David Hernández, Elia Nada, Jodi Kim, Shana L. Redmond, Dylan Rodríguez, and Sarita Echavez See.  Durham: Duke University Press, 2016.


Delivered the closing keynote address, “The Whiplash of Immigration Enforcement: Reflections on ’the Trump Era,’” at the Western New England Law Review Symposium, “New Abolitionism: Ending Civil Immigration Detention and Criminalization—Policy, History, and Legal Strategies.” February 27, 2021.


Delivered the research presentation, "Outsourcing Migrant Control: 100 Years of Private Prisons,” at the Center for the Study of the Southwest at Texas State University on September 24, 2020.


Published a letter in the New York Times on August 16, 2020, "The Moves Against the Census: A reader says the government's actions obscure accuracy and harm the country." New York Times (print and online editions).