{"id":8867,"date":"2018-06-21T16:21:08","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T15:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=8867"},"modified":"2018-06-21T16:21:08","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T15:21:08","slug":"gordon-lynch-on-trumps-child-migration-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2018\/06\/21\/gordon-lynch-on-trumps-child-migration-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"Gordon Lynch on Trump\u2019s child migration policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/thrs\/staff\/lynch.html\">Professor Gordon Lynch<\/a>, Michael Ramsey Professor of Modern Theology in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/thrs\/index.html\">Department of Religious Studies<\/a>, has provided media commentary on US president Donald Trump\u2019s controversial policy of separating children from their parents on the US-Mexico border.<\/p>\n<p>Gordon\u2019s comments draw on his own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/thrs\/news\/index.html?view=8415\">research expertise on child migration<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He was interviewed on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radiokent\">BBC Radio Kent<\/a> yesterday, on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p067zkrg\">Drive with Steve N Allen and Lauren Troup<\/a> on 20 June. \u2018Donald Trump is very much on the wrong end of international opinion on this, and I think there are many people in this country that feel Theresa May could go much further than she\u2019s already done on this,\u2019 stated Gordon.<\/p>\n<p>The broadcast is available online, and Gordon\u2019s interview can be heard at 01:13:30 mark here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p0692j13\">https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p0692j13<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He also provided an expert comment for <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/uk\">The Conversation<\/a> website, titled \u2018Children have been separated from their families for generations \u2013 why Trump\u2019s policy was\u00a0different\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Compared to historical welfare interventions, this US policy also lacked any moral claim that the separations were for the good of the child,\u2019 explains Gordon in the article. \u2018It functioned simply as a punitive measure against immigration, ignoring evidence of the\u00a0traumatic effects of separation\u00a0from parents for children.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>To read the article, please see The Conversation page here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/children-have-been-separated-from-their-families-for-generations-why-trumps-policy-was-different-98587\">https:\/\/theconversation.com\/children-have-been-separated-from-their-families-for-generations-why-trumps-policy-was-different-98587<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Gordon Lynch, Michael Ramsey Professor of Modern Theology in the Department of Religious Studies, has provided media commentary on US president Donald Trump\u2019s controversial &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2018\/06\/21\/gordon-lynch-on-trumps-child-migration-policies\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":6984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,18581],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8867"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8867"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8874,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8867\/revisions\/8874"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}