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Great list! I just immediately bought: Ghost Citizens and Sanctuary Everywhere.
Also consider adding some fiction in another post. As your resident literary scholar, I have to plug: Signs Preceding the End of the World/Señales que precederán al fin del mundo (Yuri Herrera), Among the Lost/Las tierras arrasadas (Emiliano Monge), Gringo Champion/Campeón Gabacho (Aura Xilonen), and Solito (Javier Zamora, not fiction, but imaginative just the same). Just a few of a remarkable genre of fiction.
Also - what is your "formerly known as Twitter" account? Would love to follow you there!
Kate, thanks so much for letting me know what captured you. I LOOOOVE Signs Preceding the End of the World, and I have not *yet* done a book list of fiction, but that one would absolutely belong to it.
Jennifer, thanks so much for reaching out! I would love to have a conversation with you if you're interested. Feel free to email me anytime and we can set something up. I think it's an especially good time to talk about this given the new administration.
Thanks for the hints. Very interesting list of books. I recognize some titles as by Molnar. I also read books about migration that were originally published in Sweden.
3) Making Routes: Mobility and the Politics of Migration in the Global South
I've been holding a reading group (adjacent to a course on globalization that I teach), mainly using Sally Hayden's My fourth time, we drowned and parts of Catherine Besteman, Making Refuge. Happy to expand with connections to other scholars and parts of the world.
Great list! I just immediately bought: Ghost Citizens and Sanctuary Everywhere.
Also consider adding some fiction in another post. As your resident literary scholar, I have to plug: Signs Preceding the End of the World/Señales que precederán al fin del mundo (Yuri Herrera), Among the Lost/Las tierras arrasadas (Emiliano Monge), Gringo Champion/Campeón Gabacho (Aura Xilonen), and Solito (Javier Zamora, not fiction, but imaginative just the same). Just a few of a remarkable genre of fiction.
Also - what is your "formerly known as Twitter" account? Would love to follow you there!
Kate, thanks so much for letting me know what captured you. I LOOOOVE Signs Preceding the End of the World, and I have not *yet* done a book list of fiction, but that one would absolutely belong to it.
Feel free to follow me here: https://x.com/ackocher
Gringo Champion/Campeón Gabacho is I think a film under production right now in CDMX (dir. Jonás Cuarón of "Desierto").
I’m the author of Learning to Lead, and I’d love to do a virtual book talk!
Jennifer, thanks so much for reaching out! I would love to have a conversation with you if you're interested. Feel free to email me anytime and we can set something up. I think it's an especially good time to talk about this given the new administration.
I suggest you review the book MIGRATION AND THE RISE OF THE UNITED STATES. THE ROLE OF OLD AND NEW DIASPORAS, https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-migration-and-the-rise-of-the-united-states.html
Thanks for the hints. Very interesting list of books. I recognize some titles as by Molnar. I also read books about migration that were originally published in Sweden.
Any good recs for books on this topic in Spanish?
- Sanctuary Everywhere
- Illegalized
- Ghost Citizens
- Streets of Gold
If the group is interested in fiction suggestions, I recommend Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue, which a friend gave me as a present years ago.
1) Brexit and citizens’ rights: History
2) Ghost Citizens:
3) Making Routes: Mobility and the Politics of Migration in the Global South
I've been holding a reading group (adjacent to a course on globalization that I teach), mainly using Sally Hayden's My fourth time, we drowned and parts of Catherine Besteman, Making Refuge. Happy to expand with connections to other scholars and parts of the world.
Best,
Henry Sivak
SPGS, ASU
Thanks so much for this, Henry. 👏🏼
Hi! I suggest “How migration really works?” From Hein de Haas
As an immigration lawyer and rabbi, I am starting with Sanctuary Everywhere and would love to hear from that author. But all of these look excellent!
You might add:
"The Deportation Machine, America's Long History of Expelling Immigrants" by Adam Goodman.
"No Human Is Illegal: An Attorney on the Front Lines of the Immigration War" by J. J. Mulligan Sepulveda