From the Bookshelves: THE SHADOW OF THE WALL: VIOLENCE AND MIGRATION ON THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDER EDITED BY JEREMY SLACK, DANIEL E. MARTÍNEZ, AND SCOTT WHITEFORD
THE SHADOW OF THE WALL: VIOLENCE AND MIGRATION ON THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDER EDITED BY JEREMY SLACK, DANIEL E. MARTÍNEZ, AND SCOTT WHITEFORD. FOREWORD BY JOSIAH HEYMAN. PHOTOGRAPHS BY MURPHY WOODHOUSE
Revealing the very real human impact of deportation policies Mass deportation is at the forefront of political discourse in the United States. The Shadow of the Wall shows in tangible ways the migration experiences of hundreds of people, including their encounters with U.S. Border Patrol, car-tels, detention facilities, and the deportation process. Deportees reveal in their heartwrenching stories the power of family separation and reunification and the cost of criminalization, and they call into question assumptions about hu-man rights and federal policies.
Thee authors analyze data from the Migrant Border Crossing Study (MBCS), a mixed-methods, binational research project that offers socially relevant, rig-orous social science about migration, immigration enforcement, and violence on the border. Using information gathered from more than 1,600 post-depor-tation surveys, this volume examines the different faces of violence and mi-gration along the Arizona-Sonora border and shows that deportees are highly connected to the United States and will stop at nothing to return to their fam-ilies. e Shadow of the Wall underscores the unintended social consequences of increased border enforcement, immigrant criminalization, and deportation along the U.S.-Mexico border.
JEREMY SLACK is an assistant professor of geography in the Sociology and Anthropology Department at the University of Texas at El Paso.
DANIEL E. MARTÍNEZ is an assistant professor in the School of Sociology at the University of Arizona.
SCOTT WHITEFORD is the director of the Social and Behavioral Sciences Mexico Initiative and a professor emeritus at the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Arizona.
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