Chávez Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at UCLA. He completed his doctorate in Comparative Ethnic Studies at U.C. Berkeley. He is completing a manuscript on immigrant detention, tentatively entitled “Undue Process: Immigrant Detention, Due Process, and Lesser Citizenship.” The book will examine the racial genealogy of immigrant detention in the United States and explore how escalations in immigrant detention have occurred episodically over the last century at the nexus of racial inequality, xenophobia, and the construction of national crises. Dr Hernández' research and teaching interests are interdisciplinary and include international migration and Chicana/o and Latina/o politics and social movements.