The Deportation Machine (Review)
Goodman provides insight into today’s crises, by documenting the history of three mechanisms of expulsion: formal deportation, voluntary departure (“return”), ...
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 ...
The Case for Nuance in Immigrant Stories (Review)
In his new book The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez, Aaron Bobrow-Strain captures why true border stories defy simplicity. ...
Film Review Essay: Traffic’s Sophisticated Propaganda
When the movie Traffic burst onto U.S. movie screens in December 2000, the pundits were unanimous: By confronting a difficult ...
Documentary Film Review: Fiction of War
"The population has to take sides with the authorities because the ones who have been displaced are delinquents, or guerrillas ...