Amy Reed-Sandoval
@amyrs.bsky.social
Philosophy Prof @UNLV / writer / author of Socially Undocumented: Identity and Immigration Justice, and Intimate Borders: Feminist Migration Ethics (forthcoming) / amyreedsandoval.com
"The aim, therefore, of patriots, was to set limits to the power which the ruler should be suffered to exercise over the community; and this limitation was what they meant by liberty." - John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859
October 16, 2025 at 8:51 PM
"The aim, therefore, of patriots, was to set limits to the power which the ruler should be suffered to exercise over the community; and this limitation was what they meant by liberty." - John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859
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In this interview, APA member @amyrs.bsky.social (UNLV) shares why her research and forthcoming book, “Intimate Borders, Feminist Migration Ethics,” are more timely and relevant than ever. www.unlv.edu/news/article...
The Interview: Amy Reed-Sandoval
Kids and everyday people make the best philosophers, according to professor Amy Reed-Sandoval
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September 29, 2025 at 12:45 PM
In this interview, APA member @amyrs.bsky.social (UNLV) shares why her research and forthcoming book, “Intimate Borders, Feminist Migration Ethics,” are more timely and relevant than ever. www.unlv.edu/news/article...
Cover reveal for my forthcoming book Intimate Borders: Feminist Migration Ethics! It features a photo from the extraordinary photojournalist Guillermo Arias. I am grateful to him and to OUP for working with me to put this powerful image on my cover.
September 2, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Cover reveal for my forthcoming book Intimate Borders: Feminist Migration Ethics! It features a photo from the extraordinary photojournalist Guillermo Arias. I am grateful to him and to OUP for working with me to put this powerful image on my cover.
Claudia Sheinbaum just gave her first State of the Union address ("informe de la nación) which included references to immigration justice, education reform, poverty reduction, etc. A standout moment was when she referred to the Gulf of Mexico--and then repeated it for emphasis--inspiring applause.
September 1, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Claudia Sheinbaum just gave her first State of the Union address ("informe de la nación) which included references to immigration justice, education reform, poverty reduction, etc. A standout moment was when she referred to the Gulf of Mexico--and then repeated it for emphasis--inspiring applause.
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Scholars of immigration, join us tomorrow!
August 20, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Scholars of immigration, join us tomorrow!
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"In troubling times, I have chosen to read Gago with hopefulness." Amy Reed-Sandoval considers feminist anti-fascism in the writings of Verónica Gago. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-transversal-spirit-of-the-feminist-strike/
The Transversal Spirit of the Feminist Strike | Los Angeles Review of Books
Amy Reed-Sandoval considers feminist anti-fascism in the writings of Verónica Gago.
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August 12, 2025 at 8:48 PM
"In troubling times, I have chosen to read Gago with hopefulness." Amy Reed-Sandoval considers feminist anti-fascism in the writings of Verónica Gago. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-transversal-spirit-of-the-feminist-strike/
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Awesome short piece on dehumanization. It is very gratifying that philosophers are finally taking a serious interest in this phenomenon. 1000wordphilosophy.com/2025/08/10/d...
Dehumanization: What is it to Dehumanize People? - 1000-Word Philosophy: An Introductory Anthology
Dehumanization involves wrongly treating or viewing some person or group as less than human. But what exactly is it to treat or view some person or group as less than human? And how might these action...
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August 11, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Awesome short piece on dehumanization. It is very gratifying that philosophers are finally taking a serious interest in this phenomenon. 1000wordphilosophy.com/2025/08/10/d...
I was interviwed about Philosophy for Children and philosophical parenting for this interesting new podcast Nurturing Minds: www.podbean.com/ew/pb-cvxez-...
August 9, 2025 at 8:50 PM
I was interviwed about Philosophy for Children and philosophical parenting for this interesting new podcast Nurturing Minds: www.podbean.com/ew/pb-cvxez-...
Las Vegas friends- folks who may be in Las Vegas in Oct.: I will be doing a local launch of my forthcoming book Intimate Borders: Feminist Migration Ethics at the *lovely* Vegas independent bookstore The Writers Block on Thursday, October 9th from 7-8pm. www.thewritersblock.org/events/47666...
AMY REED-SANDOVAL | The Writer's Block
An independent bookstore in downtown Las Vegas, offering free creative-writing classes to grades K–12.
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August 1, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Las Vegas friends- folks who may be in Las Vegas in Oct.: I will be doing a local launch of my forthcoming book Intimate Borders: Feminist Migration Ethics at the *lovely* Vegas independent bookstore The Writers Block on Thursday, October 9th from 7-8pm. www.thewritersblock.org/events/47666...
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For your summer reading: In a new piece on the ethics of migration policy dilemmas, we explain why a 'myth busting' approach to migration policy is insufficient and sometimes misleading.
All contributions to this roundtable on "dilemmas" are linked below.
All contributions to this roundtable on "dilemmas" are linked below.
#OpenAccess from the latest issue of Ethics & International Affairs -
Beyond Myth Busting: How Engagement with Ethical Dilemmas Can Improve Debates and Policymaking on Migration - cup.org/4f6dbuy
- @lukasschmid.bsky.social, Martin Ruhs, Rainer Bauböck & @julia-mp.bsky.social
Beyond Myth Busting: How Engagement with Ethical Dilemmas Can Improve Debates and Policymaking on Migration - cup.org/4f6dbuy
- @lukasschmid.bsky.social, Martin Ruhs, Rainer Bauböck & @julia-mp.bsky.social
July 24, 2025 at 12:53 PM
For your summer reading: In a new piece on the ethics of migration policy dilemmas, we explain why a 'myth busting' approach to migration policy is insufficient and sometimes misleading.
All contributions to this roundtable on "dilemmas" are linked below.
All contributions to this roundtable on "dilemmas" are linked below.
I published an article in Salon about Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum--and how international media can/should do a better job of representing her and her politics: www.salon.com/2025/07/15/c...
Claudia Sheinbaum has a story to tell — and we need to listen
Mexico's president is being defined in relation to powerful men. Allowing that to happen will be our loss
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July 15, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I published an article in Salon about Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum--and how international media can/should do a better job of representing her and her politics: www.salon.com/2025/07/15/c...
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Hundreds of American rabbis have protested Netanyahu’s mass murder in Gaza but they rarely get any media attention. That also happened in February 2015 when more than 400 rabbis from Britain and around the world called on Benjamin Netanyahu to stop the demolition of Palestinian homes.
July 11, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Hundreds of American rabbis have protested Netanyahu’s mass murder in Gaza but they rarely get any media attention. That also happened in February 2015 when more than 400 rabbis from Britain and around the world called on Benjamin Netanyahu to stop the demolition of Palestinian homes.
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
Will be writing in Mexico City for the next two weeks ❤️
June 30, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Will be writing in Mexico City for the next two weeks ❤️
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this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
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June 29, 2025 at 10:54 AM
this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely
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Here's a link to the PDF version: drive.google.com/file/d/1elNv...
June 26, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Here's a link to the PDF version: drive.google.com/file/d/1elNv...
An important read by my UNLV colleague @robvato.bsky.social
Fearlessness is the point.
My latest for @thenation.com: An Urgent Message From the Streets of Los Angeles: “Nos tienen miedo porque no tenemos miedo” (They fear us because we do not fear them).
bit.ly/4jY2j2K
My latest for @thenation.com: An Urgent Message From the Streets of Los Angeles: “Nos tienen miedo porque no tenemos miedo” (They fear us because we do not fear them).
bit.ly/4jY2j2K
An Urgent Message From the Streets of Los Angeles
“Nos tienen miedo porque no tenemos miedo” (They fear us because we do not fear them).
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June 20, 2025 at 6:02 PM
An important read by my UNLV colleague @robvato.bsky.social
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When ICE agents look like this, it is ENTIRELY APPROPRIATE for state and local law enforcement to step in and demand they identify themselves and show judicial warrants before detaining anyone from an immigration court.
Democratic mayor and governors can take action on this.
Democratic mayor and governors can take action on this.
June 18, 2025 at 12:56 PM
When ICE agents look like this, it is ENTIRELY APPROPRIATE for state and local law enforcement to step in and demand they identify themselves and show judicial warrants before detaining anyone from an immigration court.
Democratic mayor and governors can take action on this.
Democratic mayor and governors can take action on this.
The page proofs are here!
June 13, 2025 at 3:54 PM
The page proofs are here!
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What they aren’t showing on Fox News
June 12, 2025 at 12:15 AM
What they aren’t showing on Fox News
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If only the DNC could put the same energy it has in kneecapping its most powerful young activists into stopping sending me fundraising emails.
The credentials committee of the Democratic National Committee voted on Monday to void the results of the internal party vote that made David Hogg a party vice chair, ruling that the election had not followed proper parliamentary procedures.
D.N.C. Takes Step to Void Election of Hogg and Kenyatta as Vice Chairs
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May 13, 2025 at 4:20 AM
If only the DNC could put the same energy it has in kneecapping its most powerful young activists into stopping sending me fundraising emails.
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in the spirit of self-crit: in past years I have certainly been among those who have been vocally skeptical of the role of law and lawyers in meaningfully constraining armed agents of the state. but I do think we have to hand it to lawyers at this time
By my count, there had been 103 lawsuits filed in the last 20 days, and judges had issued 50 restraining orders requiring the Trump administration to reverse the terminations. Those decisions came in more than 23 states. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
April 25, 2025 at 3:51 PM
in the spirit of self-crit: in past years I have certainly been among those who have been vocally skeptical of the role of law and lawyers in meaningfully constraining armed agents of the state. but I do think we have to hand it to lawyers at this time
Amigues, les comparto aquí mi reseña en Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews de un libro reciente de Fanny del Río, lo cual considero una gran contribución tanto a la filosofía feminista como a la filosofía mexicana! tinyurl.com/mv3bc6fs
Hacía una crítica ética de la historia de la filosofía en México desde la perspectiva de género
In her book Hacía una crítica ética de la historia de la filosofía en México desde la perspectiva de género, or Towar...
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April 14, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Amigues, les comparto aquí mi reseña en Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews de un libro reciente de Fanny del Río, lo cual considero una gran contribución tanto a la filosofía feminista como a la filosofía mexicana! tinyurl.com/mv3bc6fs