RESOURCES

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

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-04-09/the-race-to-cash-in-on-trump-s-invisible-high-tech-border-wall

• The Desert of Asylum: From Internment to Disappearance by Sophie Smith

https://nacla.org/blog/2018/11/08/desert-asylum-internment-disappearance?fbclid=IwAR0-jG1WfoCO-dugqqf5Tn73rivJix0TvQdw3w183swPfB4PgXKkCEcKNR8​

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

• International Rescue Committee