Part 11: On The Border and Global Refugee Crisis
Part Eleven, “On the Border and Global Refugee Crisis,” provides readings, reports, and multimedia resources for placing the U.S. immigration detention system in the broader contexts of border enforcement and a growing global refugee crisis. It also provides further resources for assessing migrant deaths in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, the relationship between climate change and migration, and immigration detention experiences abroad.
Readings
Andreas, Peter, Border Games: Policing the US-Mexico Divide. 2nd ed. Cornell University Press, 2012.
Barry, Tom, Border Wars. MIT Press, 2011.
Bejarano, Cynthia, Maria Cristina Morales, and Said Saddiki, “Understanding Conquest through a Border Lens: A Comparative Analysis of the Mexico-U.S. and Morocco-Spain Regions,” in Beyond Walls and Cages: Prisons, Borders, and Global Crisis. University of Georgia Press, 2012.
Borderlands Autonomist Collective, “Resisting the Security-Industrial Complex: Operation Streamline and the Militarization of the Arizona-Mexico Borderlands,” in Beyond Walls and Cages: Prisons, Borders, and Global Crisis. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012.
Burnett, Josh, “At the U.S.-Mexico Border, Haitians Arrive to a Harsh Reception,” NPR, November 2016.
Dunn, Timothy J. Blockading the Border and Human Rights: The El Paso Operation that Remade Immigration Enforcement. University of Texas Press, 2010; The Militarization of the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1978–1992: Low-Intensity Conflict Comes Home. University of Texas Press, 1995.
Ettinger, Patrick. Imaginary Lines: Border Enforcement and the Origins of Undocumented Immigration. University of Texas Press, 2009.
Hernández, Kelly Lytle Migra!: A History of the US Border Patrol. University of California Press, 2010.
Hall, Alexandra. Border Watch: Cultures of Immigration, Detention and Control. Pluto Press, 2012.
“International Migrant Crisis Hits a Breaking Point in Baja California” Frontera NorteSur, October, 2016.
Lee, Erika, “Enforcing the Borders: Chinese Exclusion along the U.S. Borders with Canada and Mexico, 1882–1924,” Journal of American History 89 (2002) 54–86.
Maril, Robert Lee. Patrolling Chaos: The U.S. Border Patrol in Deep South Texas. Texas Tech University Press, 2006.
Mountz, A. and Coddington, K. and Loyd, J. and Catania, R. T. (2012) 'Conceptualizing detention : mobility, containment, bordering, and exclusion.', Progress in human geography., 37 (4). pp. 522-541.
Miller, Todd. Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security. City Lights Publishers, 2014.
“New Migration: Haitians carve a dangerous 7,000-mile path to the U.S.,” Miami Herald, 2016.
O’Leary, Anna Ochoa, Colin M. Deeds, and Scott Whiteford, eds. Uncharted Terrains: New Directions in Border Research, Methodology, Ethics, and Practice. University of Arizona Press, 2013.
Regan, Margaret. The Death of Josseline: Immigration Stories from the Arizona Borderlands. Beacon Press, 2010.
Nevins, Joseph, Operation Gatekeeper: The Rise of the “Illegal Alien” and the Remaking of the U.S.-Mexico Boundary. Routledge, 2002; Dying to Live: A Story of U.S. Immigration in an Age of Global Apartheid. City Lights Books, 2008; “Policing Mobility: Maintaining Global Apartheid from South Africa to the United States” in Beyond Walls and Cages: Prisons, Borders, and Global Crisis. University of Georgia Press, 2012.
Sorrentino, Joseph, “How the U.S. ‘Solved’ the Central American Migrant Crisis,” IMM Print, May 2017.
Tamez, Margo, “The Texas-Mexico Border Wall and Ndé Memory: Confronting Genocide and State Criminality, beyond the Guise of ‘Impunity,’” in Beyond Walls and Cages: Prisons, Borders, and Global Crisis. University of Georgia Press, 2012.
“The Other Migrant Crisis: Thousands Risk Journey Through Latin America,” CNN.com, December 2016.
Visuals
Photo Essay: “A First Look Inside Border Patrol’s ‘Iceboxes,’” The Atlantic,2016.
Poetry: Daniel Borzutsky, The Performance of Becoming Human
Podcast: “Peter Andreas: Trump’s Wall is Already Built,” The Dig
Undocumented Migration Project, University of Michigan
Visualizing the US-Mexico Border, The Intercept
by Jess X Chen, from “Visions of the Inside 2015” by CultureStrike
Reports
Crossing the Line: U.S. Border Agents Illegally Reject Asylum Seekers, Human Rights First, May 2017.
Record of Abuse: Lawlessness and Impunity in Border Patrol’s Interior Enforcement Operations, ACLU, October 2015. En Español
“You Don’t Have Rights Here”: US Border Screening and Returns of Central Americans to Risk of Serious Harm, Human Rights Watch, October 2014.
Documented Failures: The Consequences of Immigration Policy on the US-Mexico Border, Kino Border Initiative and Jesuit Refugee Service USA, 2013.
The “Hieleras”: A Report on Human & Civil Rights Abuses Committed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Americans for Immigrant Justice, 2013.
Humanitarian Crisis: Migrant Deaths at the US-Mexico Border, ACLU of San Diego and Mexico’s National Commission of Human Rights, 2009.
Border Deaths
Fernando Marti, 2015. CultureStrike Climate Justice
“Death as ‘Deterrence’: The Desert as a Weapon.” Alliance for Global Justice.
deBuys, William, “High Blue: The Great Downshift of Dryness” and “Apache Pass: Crossing the Line,” in A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest. Oxford University Press, 2013.
De León, Jason. The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2015. Book Review
Esbach, Karl, Jacqueline Hagan, and Nestor Rodríguez. “Deaths During Undocumented Migration: Trends and Policy Implications in the New Era of Homeland Security.” In Defense of the Alien, vol. 26 (2003) 37–52.
The Missing Migrant Project by Coalicíon de Derechos Humanos and the Colibri Center for Human Rights
No More Deaths, No Mas Muertes
Climate Refugees
“An Interview with Author Todd Miller on Climate Change and Migration,” No More Deaths.
“Arkansas a refuge from rising seas in Marshall Islands” Associated Press, November 2015.
Biermann, Frank and Ingrid Boas, “Protecting Climate Refugees: The Case for a Global Protocol,” Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, vol. 50 (2008).
“Climate Change and the Coming ‘Humanitarian Crisis of Epic Proportions,’” Common Dreams.
Farbotko, Carol, “The First Climate Refugees? Contesting Global Narratives of Climate Change in Tuvalu,” in Global Environmental Changevol. 22 (2012) 382–290.
“Heat, Hunger, and War Force Africans Onto a ‘Road of Fire,’” New York Times, December 2015.
McNamara, Karen Elizabeth, “‘We do not want to leave our land’: Pacific Ambassadors at the United Nations resist category of ‘climate refugees.’” Geoforum 40 (2009).
“Migration and Climate Change,” International Organization for Migration
“Resettling the first American ‘Climate Refugees,’” New York Times, May 2016.
“Syria’s Climate-Fueled Conflict, In One Stunning Comic Strip,” Mother Jones, 2014.
Scribbler, Robert, “Everything I was Dreaming of is Gone — How Climate Change is Spurring a Global Refugee Crisis to Rapidly Worsen.”
Soh, Max, “Uninhabitable: Intersections between Climate Change and Migration,” IMM Print, June 2017.
“The Ominous Story of Syria’s Climate Refugees,” Scientific American, December 2015.
Climate Justice project, CultureStrike
Films
Exodus, PBS
Children of Syria, PBS Frontline
Welcome to Canada, The Atlantic
Climate Refugees (2015):
Global Detention
“Inside Manus: A Photo Essay,” The Guardian, 2016.
Mountz, Alison, “Mapping Remote Detention,” in Beyond Walls and Cages: Prisons, Borders, and Global Crisis. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012.
Nethery, Amy and Sarah Silverman, eds. Immigration Detention: The Migration of a Policy and its Human Impact. Routledge, 2015.
“Photos of Yesterday’s Protest Outside the UK’s Most Notorious Immigrant Detention Center,” VICE, 2016.
Walia, Harsha, and Proma Tagore, “Prisoners of Passage: Immigration Detention in Canada,” in Beyond Walls and Cages: Prisons, Borders, and Global Crisis. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012.
“What Its Like to Live in Limbo in an Immigration Detention Center,” VICE,2016.
Reports
Two Years with No Moon: Immigration Detention of Children in Thailand, Human Rights Watch, September 2014.
Barely Surviving: Detention, Abuse, and Neglect of Migrant Children in Indonesia, Human Rights Watch, June, 2013.
Boat Ride to Detention: Adult and Child Migrants in Malta, Human Rights Watch, July 2012.
Fast-Track to Unfairness: Detention and Denial of Women Asylum Seekers in the UK, Human Rights Watch, February 2010.
Stories
Surviving Detention: Refugee Art Project (Australia)
Behind the Wire (Australia):