After watching The Undocumented, are you interested in learning more about the militarization and deaths on the U.S.-México border? See below for some suggested readings to expand your understanding of the migrant experience.
Dying to Live: A Story of US Immigration in an Age of Global Apartheid
Nevins, Joseph
Those Who Never Make It and the Suffering of Those Left Behind: The Fate of Honduran Missing Migrants and Their Families (article) [active link to pdf doc]
Elisabeth Kirchbichler
Working the Boundaries: Race, Space and “Illegality” in Mexican Chicago (Chapter 6)
Nicholas De Genova
The Strange Career of the ‘Illegal Alien’: Immigration Restriction and Deportation Policy in the United States, 1921-1965
Mae Ngai
Dead in Their Tracks: Crossing America’s Desert Borderlands
John Annerino
Coyotes: A Journey Through the Secret World of America’s Illegal Aliens
Ted Conover
Hard Line: Life and Death on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Ken Ellingwood
Operation Gatekeeper: The Rise of the “Illegal Alien” and the Making of the U.S.-Mexico Boundary
Joseph Nevins
The Devil’s Highway
Luis Alberto Urrea
Lives on the Line: Dispatches from the U.S.-Mexico Border
Miriam Davidson
Dying for a Cup of Coffee? Migrant Deaths in the US-Mexico Border Region in a Neoliberal Age (article) [active link to pdf doc]
Joseph Nevins
Enrique’s Journey: The Story of a Boy’s Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with his Mother
Sonia Nazario
Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail
Ruben Martinez
Antonio’s Gun and Delfino’s Dream
Sam Quinones
Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America
Juan Gonzalez
Ex Mex: From Migrants to Immigrants
Jorge G. Castañeda
In the Shadow of the Wall: Family Separation, Immigration Enforcement and Security Preliminary Data from the Migrant Border Crossing Study
[active link to pdf doc]
Slack, Jeremy, Martinez, Daniel, Whiteford, Scott,and Peiffer, Emily Center for Latin American Studies, University of Arizona, 2013
The Alliance for Global Justice Border Militarization Study Guide: http://afgj.org/border-militarization-study-guide
ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION: Border-Crossing Deaths Have Doubled Since 1995; Border Patrol’s Efforts to Prevent Deaths Have Not Been Fully Evaluated
[active link to pdf doc]
United States Government Accountability Office Report to the Honorable Bill Frist, Majority Leader, U.S. Senate, August 2006
The “Funnel Effect” & Recovered Bodies of Unauthorized Migrants Processed by the Pima County Office of the Medical Examiner, 1990-2005
[active link to pdf doc]
Binational Migration Institute
Immigration Facts and Myths
Labor, Immigration and Employee Benefits Division, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 2011
http://www.uschamber.com/sites/default/files/reports/16793_ImmigrationMythFacts_OPT.pdf
