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Why We Need a Handbook for Practicing Asylum
Jun 07 2024
Practicing Asylum brings together experienced expert witnesses and immigration attorneys to highlight best practices and strategies for giving expert testimony in asylum cases. As the scale and severity of violence in Latin America has grown in the last decade, scholars and attorneys have collaborat
Q&A with Ieva Jusionyte, author of Exit Wounds
Apr 16 2024
American guns have entangled the lives of people on both sides of the US-Mexico border in a vicious circle of violence. After treating wounded migrants and refugees seeking safety in the United States, anthropologist Ieva Jusionyte boldly embarked on a journey in the opposite direction—following the
Border Activist and Critic Michael Dear’s Top 15 Border Films
Feb 08 2023
By Michael Dear, author of Border Witness: Reimagining the US-Mexico Borderlands through FilmOver the past two decades, there has been an explosion of film releases about the US-Mexico borderlands. Not surprisingly, many have addressed issues of drug trafficking and cartels as well as immigr
How American Deportation Trains Represent a Century of American Immigration Policy
Apr 01 2022
By Ethan Blue, author of The Deportation Express: A History of America through Forced RemovalThe possibility of expedited resettlement in the US for some of the millions of Ukrainians displaced by the ongoing Russian invasion offers an example of how the United States and other wealthy nations m