"Birth in Times of Despair delves into the various forms of maternal harm on the US-Mexico border as they relate to longstanding unjust immigration, health, and social policies both before and during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic"--
Carina Heckert is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at The University of Texas at El Paso and author of Fault Lines of Care: Gender, HIV, and Global Health in Bolivia.