William D Lopez
Biographic Data
| ID | 184239 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William D Lopez |
| GIVEN NAMES | William D |
| FAMILY NAME | Lopez |
| SIGNATURE | LOPEZ W D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5162-1251 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 197 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
A logic model for alternative response programs to guide public health research and practice
Large-scale immigration worksite raids: Community Disaster, Community Response
Immigration enforcement – or the surveillance, detention, and deportation of noncitizens – detrimentally impacts health, with spillover effects on the families of those targeted. However, less is known about how immigration enforcement impacts communities, regardless of the immigration statuses of members. Immigration worksite raids can involve hundreds of agents, helicopters, and buses descending unannounced upon rural towns with small Latino po…
Challenges to addressing mental health repercussions of large-scale immigration worksite raids in the rural United States
Immigration worksite raids-in which dozens to hundreds of individuals are detained-often target food processing plants or other warehouse-based operations, primary sources of employment for immigrants in rural communities. Drawing on interviews with 77 adults who provided support following six worksite raids, we describe three challenges to identifying resultant mental health impacts: 1) amid poverty and family disappearance, mental health is not…
Police Violence: Reducing the Harms of Policing Through Public Health–Informed Alternative Response Programs
Police violence is a public health issue in need of public health solutions. Reducing police contact through public health–informed alternative response programs separate from law enforcement agencies is one strategy to reduce police perpetration of physical, emotional, and sexual violence. Such programs may improve health outcomes, especially for communities that are disproportionately harmed by the police, such as Black, Latino/a, Native Americ…
Implementation Evaluation of Hugs/Abrazos During the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Program to Foster Resiliency in Pregnancy and Early Childhood
Early life adversity can significantly impact child development and health outcomes throughout the life course. With the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbating preexisting and introducing new sources of toxic stress, social programs that foster resilience are more necessary now than ever. The Helping Us Grow Stronger (HUGS/Abrazos) program fills a crucial need for protective buffers during the COVID-19 pandemic, which has escalated toxic stressors affect…
Barriers to health care services among US-based undocumented Latinx immigrants within the sociopolitical climate under the Trump administration: A comparative analysis between client experiences and p…
As President Biden's administration works towards a ‘fair and humane’ immigration overhaul, it becomes critical to examine the implications of immigration policies/laws under the Trump administration on the well-being of undocumented residents to inform equitable reformations. We investigate challenges faced by undocumented Latinx immigrants in accessing health care services in the sociopolitical climate under the Trump administration. This study…
Trauma and Police Violence: Issues and Implications for Mental Health Professionals
Immigration Worksite Raids Are Violent, Militarized, and Rooted in Racial Discrimination—and Politicians Love Them for It
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation William D. Lopez; IMMIGRATION WORKSITE RAIDS ARE VIOLENT, MILITARIZED, AND ROOTED IN RACIAL DISCRIMINATION—AND POLITICIANS LOVE THEM FOR IT. Practicing Anthropology 1 January 2022; 44 (1): 31–35. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/0888-4552.44.1.31 Download …
Large-Scale Immigration Worksite Raids and Mixed-Status Families: Separation, Financial Crisis, and Family Role Rearrangement
Mixed-status families-whose members have multiple immigration statuses-are common in US immigrant communities. Large-scale worksite raids, an immigration enforcement tactic used throughout US history, returned during the Trump administration. Yet, little research characterizes the impacts of these raids, especially as related to mixed-status families. The current study (1) describes a working definition of a large-scale worksite raid and (2) cons…
The repercussions of large-scale immigration worksite raids on immigrant women: Results From Six Rural Communities
We conducted a community-based study to analyze outcomes of and community responses to six large-scale immigration worksite raids by conducting semi-structured interviews with individuals who responded to these raids. Participants (n = 77) represented four primary sectors: faith, advocacy, education, and law. Analyses show that large-scale immigration worksite raids frequently prompt family reorganization and generally impact men and women differ…
The mixed-status community as analytic framework to understand the impacts of immigration enforcement on health
Fostering Resilience in Pregnancy and Early Childhood During the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Hugs/Abrazos Program Design and Implementation
Pregnancy and early childhood pose unique sensitivity to stressors such as economic instability, poor mental health, and social inequities all of which have been magnified by the COVID-19 pandemic. In absence of protective buffers, prolonged exposure to excessive, early adversity can lead to poor health outcomes with significant impact lasting beyond the childhood years. Helping Us Grow Stronger (HUGS/Abrazos) is a community-based program, design…
Preventing the Spread of Covid-19 in Immigration Detention Centers Requires the Release of Detainees
Immigration detention centers are densely populated facilities in which restrictive conditions limit detainees’ abilities to engage in social distancing or hygiene practices designed to prevent the spread of COVID-19. With tens of thousands of adults and children in more than 200 immigration detention centers across the United States, immigration detention centers are likely to experience COVID-19 outbreaks and add substantially to the population…
Policing Is a Public Health Issue: The Important Role of Health Educators
For decades, marginalized communities have been naming the harms of policing-and the systemic racism that undergirds it-for health and well-being. Only recently have policing practices and racism within policing gained more widespread attention in public health. Building on social justice and emancipatory traditions in health education, we argue that health educators are uniquely prepared to use the evidence base to reframe narratives that drive …
Immigration law enforcement, social support, and health for Latino immigrant families in Southeastern Michigan
Impact of anti‐immigrant rhetoric and policies on frontline health and social service providers in Southeast Michigan, U.S.A
Rising hostility towards immigrants characterised the 2016 Presidential election in the United States (US) and subsequent policy priorities by the new presidential administration. The political shift towards aggressive policies targeting undocumented immigrants is far-reaching and extends into other communities that convive con-or coexist with-immigrant communities. Our study aims to examine the rippling effects of these anti-immigrant policies a…
Work in Progress: Immigrant Health Care from the Vantage of Cancer Testing and Screening
Application of the Minority Stress Theory: Understanding the Mental Health of Undocumented Latinx Immigrants
This paper applies the Minority Stress framework to data collected from an ongoing community‐based participatory research project with health and social service agencies in Southeast Michigan. We examine the stressors and coping strategies employed by undocumented Latinx immigrants and their families to manage immigration‐related stress. We conducted in‐depth interviews with 23 immigrant clients at Federally Qualified Health Care Centers (FQHC) i…
Team-based urgent response: A model for community advocacy in an era of increased immigration law enforcement
The increase in deportations under the Obama administration followed by reduced discretion in arrests in the U.S. interior by the Trump administration has had tangible effects on undocumented immigrants and their communities. The unpredictability of removals, coupled with a sense of foreboding, directly impacts health, limits health seeking behaviors, and instills fear of government institutions. We describe how advocates with the Washtenaw Inter…
A qualitative study on the impact of the 2016 US election on the health of immigrant families in Southeast Michigan
These results add to previous literature on the effect of immigration policies on the health and provide key insights for interventions to improve the health of immigrants within this socio-political environment
Separated: Family and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid
It Works, But For Whom? Examining Racial Bias in Carding Experiences and Acceptance of a County Identification Card
Purpose: Policies that restrict access to U.S. government-issued photo identification (ID) cards adversely affect multiple marginalized communities. This context impedes access to health-promoting resources that increasingly require government-issued IDs and exacerbates health inequities. In 2015, Washtenaw County, Michigan, implemented the Washtenaw ID to improve access to resources contingent upon having an ID. We employed an audit study to exa…
Access to Health Care Services among Young People Exchanging Sex in Detroit
Criminal justice involvement among young adults exchanging sex in Detroit
Raising Children Amid the Threat of Deportation: Perspectives from Undocumented Latina Mothers
Despite the large number of families with at least one undocumented parent, little research has investigated mothering amid the threat of immigration enforcement. We present results of a community-based participatory study with 7 Latina mothers who describe their experiences of parenting while navigating the possibility of deportation. Undocumented mothers found meaning in caring for their children. Yet due to restrictions related to immigration …
Marginalized identities, discrimination burden, and mental health: Empirical exploration of an interpersonal-level approach to modeling intersectionality
Application of the Minority Stress Theory: Understanding the Mental Health of Undocumented Latinx Immigrants
This paper applies the Minority Stress framework to data collected from an ongoing community‐based participatory research project with health and social service agencies in Southeast Michigan. We examine the stressors and coping strategies employed by undocumented Latinx immigrants and their families to manage immigration‐related stress. We conducted in‐depth interviews with 23 immigrant clients at Federally Qualified Health Care Centers (FQHC) i…
Immigration law enforcement, social support, and health for Latino immigrant families in Southeastern Michigan
The mixed-status community as analytic framework to understand the impacts of immigration enforcement on health
Mentors, Resiliency, and Ganas: Factors Influencing the Success of Dacamented, Undocumented, and Immigrant Students in Higher Education
Emerging research has explored the psychological and emotional challenges undocumented students encounter while accessing higher education, yet few studies have specifically investigated the factors that facilitate success once admitted. Semistructured interviews with former or current undocumented students suggest that factors such as mentors, individual resiliency, and the ganas to succeed affect students’ navigation strategies in higher educat…
Raising Children Amid the Threat of Deportation: Perspectives from Undocumented Latina Mothers
Despite the large number of families with at least one undocumented parent, little research has investigated mothering amid the threat of immigration enforcement. We present results of a community-based participatory study with 7 Latina mothers who describe their experiences of parenting while navigating the possibility of deportation. Undocumented mothers found meaning in caring for their children. Yet due to restrictions related to immigration …
Testimonial Engagement: Undocumented Latina Mothers Navigating a Gendered Deportation Regime
The repercussions of large-scale immigration worksite raids on immigrant women: Results From Six Rural Communities
We conducted a community-based study to analyze outcomes of and community responses to six large-scale immigration worksite raids by conducting semi-structured interviews with individuals who responded to these raids. Participants (n = 77) represented four primary sectors: faith, advocacy, education, and law. Analyses show that large-scale immigration worksite raids frequently prompt family reorganization and generally impact men and women differ…
Discrimination and Depressive Symptoms Among Latina/o Adolescents of Immigrant Parents
Discrimination is associated with negative mental health outcomes for Latina/o adolescents. While Latino/a adolescents experience discrimination from a number of sources and across contexts, little research considers how the source of discrimination and the context in which it occurs affect mental health outcomes among Latina/o children of immigrants. We examined the association between source-specific discrimination, racial or ethnic background …
Large-scale immigration worksite raids: Community Disaster, Community Response
Immigration enforcement – or the surveillance, detention, and deportation of noncitizens – detrimentally impacts health, with spillover effects on the families of those targeted. However, less is known about how immigration enforcement impacts communities, regardless of the immigration statuses of members. Immigration worksite raids can involve hundreds of agents, helicopters, and buses descending unannounced upon rural towns with small Latino po…
Police Violence: Reducing the Harms of Policing Through Public Health–Informed Alternative Response Programs
Police violence is a public health issue in need of public health solutions. Reducing police contact through public health–informed alternative response programs separate from law enforcement agencies is one strategy to reduce police perpetration of physical, emotional, and sexual violence. Such programs may improve health outcomes, especially for communities that are disproportionately harmed by the police, such as Black, Latino/a, Native Americ…
Preventing the Spread of Covid-19 in Immigration Detention Centers Requires the Release of Detainees
Immigration detention centers are densely populated facilities in which restrictive conditions limit detainees’ abilities to engage in social distancing or hygiene practices designed to prevent the spread of COVID-19. With tens of thousands of adults and children in more than 200 immigration detention centers across the United States, immigration detention centers are likely to experience COVID-19 outbreaks and add substantially to the population…
Policing Is a Public Health Issue: The Important Role of Health Educators
For decades, marginalized communities have been naming the harms of policing-and the systemic racism that undergirds it-for health and well-being. Only recently have policing practices and racism within policing gained more widespread attention in public health. Building on social justice and emancipatory traditions in health education, we argue that health educators are uniquely prepared to use the evidence base to reframe narratives that drive …
Marginalized identities, discrimination burden, and mental health: Empirical exploration of an interpersonal-level approach to modeling intersectionality
Health issues in Latino males: A social and structural approach
Health Implications of an Immigration Raid: Findings from a Latino Community in the Midwestern United States
Immigration raids exemplify the reach of immigration law enforcement into the lives of Latino community members, yet little research characterizes the health effects of these raids. We examined the health implications of an immigration raid that resulted in multiple arrests and deportations and occurred midway through a community survey of a Latino population. We used linear regression following principal axis factoring to examine the influence o…
Discrimination and Depressive Symptoms Among Latina/o Adolescents of Immigrant Parents
Discrimination is associated with negative mental health outcomes for Latina/o adolescents. While Latino/a adolescents experience discrimination from a number of sources and across contexts, little research considers how the source of discrimination and the context in which it occurs affect mental health outcomes among Latina/o children of immigrants. We examined the association between source-specific discrimination, racial or ethnic background …
Testimonial Engagement: Undocumented Latina Mothers Navigating a Gendered Deportation Regime
Mentors, Resiliency, and Ganas: Factors Influencing the Success of Dacamented, Undocumented, and Immigrant Students in Higher Education
Emerging research has explored the psychological and emotional challenges undocumented students encounter while accessing higher education, yet few studies have specifically investigated the factors that facilitate success once admitted. Semistructured interviews with former or current undocumented students suggest that factors such as mentors, individual resiliency, and the ganas to succeed affect students’ navigation strategies in higher educat…
It Works, But For Whom? Examining Racial Bias in Carding Experiences and Acceptance of a County Identification Card
Purpose: Policies that restrict access to U.S. government-issued photo identification (ID) cards adversely affect multiple marginalized communities. This context impedes access to health-promoting resources that increasingly require government-issued IDs and exacerbates health inequities. In 2015, Washtenaw County, Michigan, implemented the Washtenaw ID to improve access to resources contingent upon having an ID. We employed an audit study to exa…
Access to Health Care Services among Young People Exchanging Sex in Detroit
Criminal justice involvement among young adults exchanging sex in Detroit
Raising Children Amid the Threat of Deportation: Perspectives from Undocumented Latina Mothers
Despite the large number of families with at least one undocumented parent, little research has investigated mothering amid the threat of immigration enforcement. We present results of a community-based participatory study with 7 Latina mothers who describe their experiences of parenting while navigating the possibility of deportation. Undocumented mothers found meaning in caring for their children. Yet due to restrictions related to immigration …
A qualitative study on the impact of the 2016 US election on the health of immigrant families in Southeast Michigan
These results add to previous literature on the effect of immigration policies on the health and provide key insights for interventions to improve the health of immigrants within this socio-political environment
Separated: Family and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid
Impact of anti‐immigrant rhetoric and policies on frontline health and social service providers in Southeast Michigan, U.S.A
Rising hostility towards immigrants characterised the 2016 Presidential election in the United States (US) and subsequent policy priorities by the new presidential administration. The political shift towards aggressive policies targeting undocumented immigrants is far-reaching and extends into other communities that convive con-or coexist with-immigrant communities. Our study aims to examine the rippling effects of these anti-immigrant policies a…
Work in Progress: Immigrant Health Care from the Vantage of Cancer Testing and Screening
Application of the Minority Stress Theory: Understanding the Mental Health of Undocumented Latinx Immigrants
This paper applies the Minority Stress framework to data collected from an ongoing community‐based participatory research project with health and social service agencies in Southeast Michigan. We examine the stressors and coping strategies employed by undocumented Latinx immigrants and their families to manage immigration‐related stress. We conducted in‐depth interviews with 23 immigrant clients at Federally Qualified Health Care Centers (FQHC) i…
Team-based urgent response: A model for community advocacy in an era of increased immigration law enforcement
The increase in deportations under the Obama administration followed by reduced discretion in arrests in the U.S. interior by the Trump administration has had tangible effects on undocumented immigrants and their communities. The unpredictability of removals, coupled with a sense of foreboding, directly impacts health, limits health seeking behaviors, and instills fear of government institutions. We describe how advocates with the Washtenaw Inter…
Fostering Resilience in Pregnancy and Early Childhood During the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Hugs/Abrazos Program Design and Implementation
Pregnancy and early childhood pose unique sensitivity to stressors such as economic instability, poor mental health, and social inequities all of which have been magnified by the COVID-19 pandemic. In absence of protective buffers, prolonged exposure to excessive, early adversity can lead to poor health outcomes with significant impact lasting beyond the childhood years. Helping Us Grow Stronger (HUGS/Abrazos) is a community-based program, design…
Preventing the Spread of Covid-19 in Immigration Detention Centers Requires the Release of Detainees
Immigration detention centers are densely populated facilities in which restrictive conditions limit detainees’ abilities to engage in social distancing or hygiene practices designed to prevent the spread of COVID-19. With tens of thousands of adults and children in more than 200 immigration detention centers across the United States, immigration detention centers are likely to experience COVID-19 outbreaks and add substantially to the population…
Policing Is a Public Health Issue: The Important Role of Health Educators
For decades, marginalized communities have been naming the harms of policing-and the systemic racism that undergirds it-for health and well-being. Only recently have policing practices and racism within policing gained more widespread attention in public health. Building on social justice and emancipatory traditions in health education, we argue that health educators are uniquely prepared to use the evidence base to reframe narratives that drive …
Immigration law enforcement, social support, and health for Latino immigrant families in Southeastern Michigan
Implementation Evaluation of Hugs/Abrazos During the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Program to Foster Resiliency in Pregnancy and Early Childhood
Early life adversity can significantly impact child development and health outcomes throughout the life course. With the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbating preexisting and introducing new sources of toxic stress, social programs that foster resilience are more necessary now than ever. The Helping Us Grow Stronger (HUGS/Abrazos) program fills a crucial need for protective buffers during the COVID-19 pandemic, which has escalated toxic stressors affect…
Barriers to health care services among US-based undocumented Latinx immigrants within the sociopolitical climate under the Trump administration: A comparative analysis between client experiences and p…
As President Biden's administration works towards a ‘fair and humane’ immigration overhaul, it becomes critical to examine the implications of immigration policies/laws under the Trump administration on the well-being of undocumented residents to inform equitable reformations. We investigate challenges faced by undocumented Latinx immigrants in accessing health care services in the sociopolitical climate under the Trump administration. This study…
Trauma and Police Violence: Issues and Implications for Mental Health Professionals
Immigration Worksite Raids Are Violent, Militarized, and Rooted in Racial Discrimination—and Politicians Love Them for It
Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation William D. Lopez; IMMIGRATION WORKSITE RAIDS ARE VIOLENT, MILITARIZED, AND ROOTED IN RACIAL DISCRIMINATION—AND POLITICIANS LOVE THEM FOR IT. Practicing Anthropology 1 January 2022; 44 (1): 31–35. doi: https://doi.org/10.17730/0888-4552.44.1.31 Download …
Large-Scale Immigration Worksite Raids and Mixed-Status Families: Separation, Financial Crisis, and Family Role Rearrangement
Mixed-status families-whose members have multiple immigration statuses-are common in US immigrant communities. Large-scale worksite raids, an immigration enforcement tactic used throughout US history, returned during the Trump administration. Yet, little research characterizes the impacts of these raids, especially as related to mixed-status families. The current study (1) describes a working definition of a large-scale worksite raid and (2) cons…
Political science (23 works) · Migration, Health and Trauma (22 works) · Immigration (19 works) · Medicine (19 works) · Law (17 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Criminology (12 works) · Law (12 works) · Nursing (11 works)