Inside the migrant camps emerging and being erased at the U.S.-Mexico border, we glimpse liminal lives crafted by punitive immigration policy yet sustained by hope.
AndrewsAbigail. 2023 (forthcoming). Banished Men: How Migrants Endure the Violence of Deportation. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. A vivid account of the consequences of expulsion by the United States and liminal lives at the border.
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FeeMollyArarRawan. 2019. “What Happens When the United States Stops Taking in Refugees?”Contexts18(2). Explores the global disruption caused by changes to U.S. poilicies around immigration and asylum.
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ParnessAyelet. 2022. “Stranded in Mexico: The Human Cost of Title 42,” HIAS.org, May18. An NGO report highlighting the inhumanity of nearly 2 million Title 42 expulsions.
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MountzAlison. 2020. The Death of Asylum. Hidden Geographies of the Enforcement Archipelago. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Demonstrates how Global North countries’ use of remote detention sites curtails the ability of those fleeing violence and poverty to seek asylum and makes refugees’ journeys more and more risky.
