Trauma as Inclusion

Summer 2022 (89:4) Tennessee Law Review

50 Pages Posted: 20 Apr 2022

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Raquel E. Aldana

UC Davis

Patrick Marius Koga

UC Davis

Thomas O’Donnell

UC Davis - Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Alea Skwara

UC Davis - Mind and Brain and Global Migration Center

Caroline Perris

University of California, Davis - School of Law

Date Written: April 5, 2022

Abstract

This article brings together a historian and law, public health, psychiatry, psychology, and neuroscience faculty and researchers to document how trauma is understood across disciplines and how it has developed in U.S. immigration law largely to exclude but increasingly to include migrants whose lives have been uprooted or otherwise impacted by borders. Our aim is to document and assess the progress and the gaps in immigration law’s embrace and understanding of trauma through metrics that include the science of trauma, compassion, and fairness. This analysis is made urgent by the travesty we are witnessing of children ripped apart from their parents and borders completely shut to desperate migrants seeking our protection.

Keywords: Immigration; Law and Trauma; Trauma-informed lawyering; Legal history; Law and Psychology

Suggested Citation

Aldana, Raquel E. and Koga, Patrick Marius and O’Donnell, Thomas and Skwara, Alea and Perris, Caroline, Trauma as Inclusion (April 5, 2022). Summer 2022 (89:4) Tennessee Law Review , Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4087777 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4087777

Raquel E. Aldana (Contact Author)

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Thomas O’Donnell

UC Davis - Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

One Shields Avenue
Apt 153
Davis, CA 95616
United States

Alea Skwara

UC Davis - Mind and Brain and Global Migration Center

One Shields Avenue
Apt 153
Davis, CA 95616
United States

Caroline Perris

University of California, Davis - School of Law

Martin Luther King, Jr. Hall
Davis, CA CA 95616-5201
United States

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