The Deportation Machine (Review)

The Deportation Machine (Review)

NACLA
Goodman provides insight into today’s crises, by documenting the history of three mechanisms of expulsion: formal deportation, voluntary departure (“return”), ...
A soldier from the Texas Army National Guard observes a section of the Rio Grande River. (U.S. Army photo by Maj. Randall Stillinger, Flickr)

Border Land, Border Water (Review)

NACLA
C.J. Alvarez's new book encourages the reader to see beyond the infrastructure that litters the borderlands, question what we take ...
The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

The Case for Nuance in Immigrant Stories (Review)

NACLA
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

Film Review Essay: Traffic’s Sophisticated Propaganda

NACLA
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

Documentary Film Review: Fiction of War

NACLA
"The population has to take sides with the authorities because the ones who have been displaced are delinquents, or guerrillas ...