RESOURCES
Ways To Learn More
Books
Blood on the Border: A Memoir of the Contra War by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
Border Games: Policing the U.S.-Mexico Divide by Peter Andreas
Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America by John Charles Chasteen
Christians at the Border by Daniel Carole
Coyote by Ted Conover
The Dispossessed: A Story of Asylum at the US-Mexican Border and Beyond by John Washington
Crossing with the Virgin: Stories from the Migrant Trail by Kathryn Ferguson
ARTICLES
A Century of U.S. Intervention Created the Immigration Crisis by Mark Tseng-Putterman
https://medium.com/s/story/timeline-us-intervention-central-america-a9bea9ebc148
America’s Virtual Border Wall Is a 1,954-Mile-Long Money Pit by Lauren Etter
The Desert of Asylum: From Internment to Disappearance by Sophie Smith
RADIO/PODCAST
RadioLab Border Trilogy https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/wnycs-radiolab/e/53818885
VIDEOS & FILMS
“Crossing Arizona” (1hr 15min)
“Disappeared: How US Border Patrol is Fueling a Missing Person’s Crisis at the Border” by No Más Muertes
Part 1 (5 mins): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7Ux__uVfNA
Part 2 (5 mins): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnmOOnRALfI
“Living Undocumented” Netflix documentary series
WEBSITES
American Immigration Council https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/topics/asylum
Amnesty International https://www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-do/refugees-asylum-seekers-and-migrants/
Asylum Seeker Assistance Project https://www.asylumprojectdc.org/
HIAS https://www.hias.org/get-involved/how-take-action-asylum-seekers
International Rescue Committee https://www.rescue.org/article/how-can-i-help-asylum-seekers