Complicating Humanitarianism in a World Scarred by an Empire of Borders (Review)

Complicating Humanitarianism in a World Scarred by an Empire of Borders (Review)

Two recent books offer nuanced explanations behind the increased violence and militarization toward criminalized immigration in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands ...
Border Land, Border Water (Review)

Border Land, Border Water (Review)

C.J. Alvarez's new book encourages the reader to see beyond the infrastructure that litters the borderlands, question what we take ...
Border Land, Border Water (Review)

Border Land, Border Water (Review)

C.J. Alvarez's new book encourages the reader to see beyond the infrastructure that litters the borderlands, question what we take ...
Death by Deportation, With Help From the Human Rights Establishment

Death by Deportation, With Help From the Human Rights Establishment

By defining violence narrowly, the asylum system—and human rights organizations that uphold it—legitimates deporting people back to face everyday injustices ...
The Problem with Border Security

The Problem with Border Security

Border security—supported by Republicans and Democrats alike—is responsible for the death of Jakelin Caal, the exoneration of the Border Patrol ...
Lessons of the Chicano Movement Today

Lessons of the Chicano Movement Today

Jimmy Patiño's Raza Si, Migra No: Chicano Movement Struggles for Immigrant Rights in San Diego, reveals connections between the early ...
Pursuing 'A Radical Faith' in the Trump Era

Pursuing ‘A Radical Faith’ in the Trump Era

What can the assassination of Sister Maura during El Salvador's civil war teach us about humanity for Central American refugees ...
Pursuing ‘A Radical Faith’ in the Trump Era

Pursuing ‘A Radical Faith’ in the Trump Era

What can the assassination of Sister Maura during El Salvador’s civil war teach us about humanity for Central American refugees ...
Migration as Reparations

Migration as Reparations

Instead of a "surge" in deportations, the U.S. government should be paying off its imperial debt to Central America ...
A Right to Stay Home, A Right to Move, A Right to the World

A Right to Stay Home, A Right to Move, A Right to the World

Only by granting the world's poor a right to a just share of the earth's resources and a right to ...
How Human Rights Organizations Are Implicated in Migrant Deaths

How Human Rights Organizations Are Implicated in Migrant Deaths

By legitimizing exclusionary border policing regimes in the U.S. and EU, groups like Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International contribute ...
Expanding Insecurity

Expanding Insecurity

As immigration enforcement and local police continue to merge, bureaucracy has become a crutch on which the U.S. immigration policing ...