Episode 2: Amy Reed-Sandoval on Migration, Gender, and Pregnancy

Episode 2: Amy Reed-Sandoval on Migration, Gender, and Pregnancy: Traveling for Prenatal Care and Abortions, COVID-19 Abortion Bans, and “Socially Undocumented” Identity

by Dr. Amy Reed-Sandoval, Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy and participating faculty in the Latinx and Latin American Studies Program at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her primary research interests are in political philosophy with a special focus on migration issues, Latin American and Latinx philosophy, bioethics, feminist philosophy, and philosophy for children. She is the author of Socially Undocumented: Identity and Immigration Justice, which was published last year by Oxford University Press, and co-editor of Latin American Immigration Ethics and Ética, Política, y Migración. She is the founding director of the Philosophy for Children in the Borderlands program in El Paso, Texas and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.

Borderland is an interview series with immigration experts across different fields (including academics, activists, nonprofit workers, and government officials) hosted by Jonathan Kwan, PhD, Inclusive Excellence Postdoctoral Fellow in Immigration Ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University, and explores the ethics of immigration with a range of experts with different specializations and perspectives to examine ethical lenses that ought to be brought to bear on immigration issues.