“Anybody, Anyplace, Anytime Can Be Removed”: Terror and Border Extension under Trump
Just what did U.S. officials at the Border Security Expo earlier this month say about U.S. foreign policy, border extension, and a revival of the war on terror?
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Uncanny Rio Grande Valley
Darkly humorous and surreal, Fernando A. Flores's borderlands fiction heralds the future. His new novel Brother Brontë chronicles deportation flights, government propaganda and a tech dystopia.
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The Southwest's Ellis Island: A Q&A with Jazmine Ulloa, author of El Paso
"The history of migration through El Paso is one that’s been forgotten and overlooked, even though these workers—and not just workers but intellectuals, activists, and poets—helped shape the American Southwest as we know it today."
A Q&A with Human Rights Archaeologist Gabriella Soto
“For a long time, a big proportion of the American public said that border security was their most important issue. People are starting to realize what that means in terms of the violence entailed.”
The Mystical and Militarized Desert
On the Spanish thriller Sirāt, the concept of Saharanism, and our reckoning with narratives about the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.
The Borderlands’ Lost Third Country
Mexican writer Álvaro Enrigue’s new novel, Now I Surrender, is an epic about the U.S. and Mexico’s joint erasure of Apachería.