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  We Built the Wall

  by Eileen Truax

  Translated by Diane Stockwell

  For decades, the American political asylum process has been used to punish enemies and reward friends of the US government. Refugees from Cuba can walk through an open door. People fleeing Eastern ...
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  Deport, Deprive, Extradite

  by Nisha Kapoor

  When Minh Pham was extradited from Britain to the US to face terrorism related charges, his appeal against the deprivation of his British citizenship was still pending. Soon after he arrived his ap...
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  The Dispossessed

  by John Washington

  Arnovis couldn’t stay in El Salvador. If he didn’t leave, a local gangster promised that his family would dress in mourning, that he would wake up with flies in his mouth. “It was like a bomb explo...
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  The Beast

  by Óscar Martínez

  Introduction by Francisco Goldman

  Translated by Daniela Maria Ugaz and John Washington

  NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Economist & The Financial TimesOne day a few years ago, 300 migrants were kidnapped between the remote desert towns of Altar, Mexico, and Sasabe...
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  Border Vigils

  by Jeremy Harding

  Ours is an era marked by extraordinary human migrations, with some 200 million people alive today having moved from their country of origin. The political reaction in Europe and the United States h...
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  The Hollywood Kid

  by Juan Martinez and Óscar Martínez

  Translated by Daniela Maria Ugaz and John Washington

  As a boy, Miguel Ángel Tobar fled a small town in El Salvador torn apart by warring guerrillas and US-backed death squads. As a teen in Los Angeles, he fought discrimination and beatings by joining...
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  A History of Violence

  by Óscar Martínez

  Foreword by Jon Lee Anderson

  Translated by Daniela Maria Ugaz and John Washington

  El Salvador and Honduras have had the highest homicide rates in the world over the past ten years, with Guatemala close behind. Every day more than 1,000 people—men, women, and children—flee these ...
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  Against Borders

  by Gracie Mae Bradley and Luke de Noronha

  Borders harm all of us: they must be abolished.Borders divide workers and families, fuel racial division, and reinforce global disparities. They encourage the expansion of technologies of surveilla...
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  Empire of Borders

  by Todd Miller

  The twenty-first century has witnessed the rapid hardening of international borders. Security, surveillance, and militarization are widening the chasm between those who travel where they please and...
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  Humanitarian Borders

  by Polly Pallister-Wilkins

  *Winner of the International Political Sociology book award for 2023*What does it mean when humanitarianism is the response to death, injury and suffering at the border? This book interrogates the ...
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  Violent Borders

  by Reece Jones

  Forty thousand people died trying to cross international borders in the past decade, with the high-profile deaths along the shores of Europe only accounting for half of the grisly total.Reece Jones...
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  All-American Nativism

  by Daniel Denvir

  It is often said that with the election of Donald Trump nativism was raised from the dead. After all, here was a president who organized his campaign around a rhetoric of unvarnished racism and xen...
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  The Jail is Everywhere

  by Jack Norton, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs and Judah Schept

  Foreword by Ruth Wilson Gilmore

  Nearly every county and major city in the United States has a jail, the short-term detention center controlled by local sheriffs that funnels people into prisons and long-term incarceration. Jails ...
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  The Muslims Are Coming!

  by Arun Kundnani

  The new front in the War on Terror is the “homegrown enemy,” domestic terrorists who have become the focus of sprawling counterterrorism structures of policing and surveillance in the United Stat...
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  Abolition Geography

  by Ruth Wilson Gilmore

  Gathering together Ruth Wilson Gilmore's work from over three decades, Abolition Geography presents her singular contribution to the politics of abolition as theorist, researcher, and organizer, of...
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  A Critical Theory of Police Power

  by Mark Neocleous

  The ubiquitous nature and political attraction of the concept of order has to be understood in conjunction with the idea of police. Since its first publication, this book has been one of the most p...
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  Disaster Capitalism

  by Antony Loewenstein

  Disaster has become big business. Best-selling journalist Antony Loewenstein trav­els across Afghanistan, Pakistan, Haiti, Papua New Guinea, the United States, Britain, Greece, and Australia to w...
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  What Is Antiracism?

  by Arun Kundnani

  Liberals have been arguing for nearly a century that racism is fundamentally an individual problem of extremist beliefs. Responding to Nazism, thinkers like gay rights pioneer Magnus Hirschfeld and...
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  None of Us Were Like This Before

  by Joshua E. S. Phillips

  None of Us Were Like This Before recounts the dark journey of a tank battalion as its focus switched from conventional military duties to guerilla warfare and prisoner detention. Author Joshua E. S...
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  Cities Under Siege

  by Stephen Graham

  Cities are the new battleground of our increasingly urban world. From the slums of the global South to the wealthy financial centers of the West, Cities Under Siege traces the spread of political v...
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  Pacification

  by Mark Neocleous

  In his new book, critical theorist Mark Neocleous engages in a sustained critique of the theory and practice of pacification. Combining philosophical analysis with historical detail, Neocleous anal...