Border barriers on the river could be fatal during floods, say Laredo landowners, a reflection on desert narratives and the U.S.-Mexico border, and become a sustaining member of The Border Chronicle today, get some cool, new merch, and help us hold those in power accountable.
As federal officials fast-track billions in border wall construction and floating buoy barriers, local leaders and residents say they’re in the dark, and fear the worst.
On the Spanish thriller Sirāt, the concept of Saharanism, and our reckoning with narratives about the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.
Lauded border scholar Joseph Nevins dissects the global border apparatus, shows its parallels with South African apartheid, and calls for both freedom of movement and the right to stay home
If you are confused by competing messages about Title 42, and the ever-changing policies at the border, please join us on Thursday, April 21 for a discussion thread. (We still have to confirm some things, but tentatively we will start at 10 am PT/ 11 am MT/ 12 pm CT/ 1 pm ET, so please pencil us in!)
Invited experts will include people from the National Immigrant Justice Center, the Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project, the Alianza Indigena Sin Fronteras (a southern Arizona organization that also works in tandem with a local migrant shelter, and will offer insight on shifting policies from that on-the-ground perspective), as well as others to be determined.
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Who has passports? Who can get visas? Which people have to risk their lives crossing lines, and who can fly and cross borders with ease? And what if heavily policed borders are actually a human rights violation? What would be the remedy to that?
In today’s podcast we welcome geographer Joseph Nevins to discuss all this. Joe is the author of two important books on border and immigration policing, Operation Gatekeeper and Beyond: The War On “Illegals” and the Remaking of the U.S.-Mexico Boundary and Dying to Live: A Story of U.S. Immigration in an Age of Global Apartheid. He is a professor at Vassar College.
I have known Joe now for more than a decade, and over those years he has been a mentor, and inspired me with his insight, wisdom, and scholarship. Please join us in this conversation as we take a step back and unpack the global border apparatus, talk about global apartheid and the right to the world, and discuss what those “lines of life and death,” as Joe puts it, really mean.
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As federal officials fast-track billions in border wall construction and floating buoy barriers, local leaders and residents say they’re in the dark, and fear the worst.
When Alex González Ormerod, editor of the Mexico Political Economist, started researching his book about the Mexican right wing, he
A Q&A and exclusive screening of a documentary short by award-winning filmmaker Bernardo Ruiz.
Each year since 1995, the Tohono O’odham Nation has held the Unity Run. “These runs,” Amy Juan says,“not only have their purpose as prayer for the people and the land but also put us on the ground to actually see what is happening” on the border.
Independent news, culture and context from the U.S.-Mexico border.
