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Hummingbird's avatar

I can recommend the graphic novel The Most Costly Journey (aka El Viaje Más Caro) published by the Vermont Folklife Center. It presents a wonderful variety of true stories about migrant workers and their personal journeys and is available in both English and Spanish.

https://www.amazon.com/-/es/Most-Costly-Journey-Farmworkers-Cartoonists/dp/091671800X

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Austin Kocher's avatar

Oh wow! I love this! I am absolutely adding this to my library.

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Cynthia's avatar

For a fascinating historic perspective, I like: Ringside Seat to a Revolution: An Underground Cultural History of El Paso and Juarez: 1893-1923, by David Dorado Romo.

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barbara martinsons's avatar

thanks for an at-home seminar on immigration. I'd add "The Devil's Highway" by Luis Alberto Urrea. I applaud the idea of "public scholarship!"

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Reading Off Into The Sunset's avatar

Here’s my favorite: The Line becomes a river by Francisco Cantú.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34818440-the-line-becomes-a-river

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Austin Kocher's avatar

Looooove that book, really good.

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Reepicheep's avatar

Don't forget Bryan Caplan's graphic novel.

https://openborderscomic.com/

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Patty's avatar

These suggestions all look worth pursuing and I thank Austin Kocher for recommending them. The links, however, led to “not found” pages on Amazon. But what I really find bewildering is that Kocher linked to Amazon at all, considering they are widely known as perhaps the biggest profiteer in the deportation industrial complex, both handing over personal data to ICE and co-owning an airline used to deport often shackled immigrants.

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