Just as the end of Title 42 did not bring the predicted surge of migrants, the Biden Administration’s new immigration plan will not halt migrants from making the dangerous trip across Mexico to seek safe haven in the US. I wrote Textures of Terror: The Murder of Claudina Isabel Velasquez ...
By Michael Dear, author of Border Witness: Reimagining the US-Mexico Borderlands through Film
Over 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...
By Ana Muñiz, author of Borderland Circuitry: Immigration Surveillance in the United States and Beyond
The passage below is an adapted excerpt from Borderland Circuitry.
I’ve loved the land for as long as I can remember. I grew up in the Sonoran Desert of Southern Arizona, a stunnin...
This interview was originally published on the UCI School of Social Sciences site by Heather Ashbach, and is reposted here with permission.
Award-winning Author Laura Enriquez
Immigration policy is fundamentally reshaping Latino families and perpetuating inequality, says UCI Chican...
Terry Greene Sterling and Jude Joffe-Block have a combined total of twenty years of on-the-ground reporting of Arizona’s painful immigration battles. Both authors covered the landmark Melendres racial profiling lawsuit against Sherrif Arpaio and subsequent legal troubles for the sheri...