Image: cover of Grace Pena Delgado’s Making the Chinese Mexican.

Books

Julia María Schiavone Camacho: Chinese Mexicans: Transpacific Migration and the Search for a Homeland, 1910-1960.

Jason Oliver Chang: Chino: Anti-Chinese Racism in Mexico, 1880-1940.

Selfa A. Chew: Uprooting Community: Japanese Mexicans, World War II, and the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands.

Grace Pena Delgado: Making the Chinese Mexican: Global Migration, Localism, and Exclusion in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands.

Fredy González: Paisanos Chinos: Transpacific Politics among Chinese Immigrants in Mexico.

Robert Chao Romero: The Chinese in Mexico: 1882 – 1940.

Elliott Young: Alien Nation: Chinese Migration in the Americas from the Coolie Era Through World War II.  

Articles

Lynn Burnett:

• The Origins of Border Crossing and Border Policing.
• The Japanese-Mexican Infiltration of Pancho Villa’s Forces.

Julia María Schiavone Camacho: Crossing Boundaries, Claiming a Homeland: The Mexican Chinese Transpacific Journey to Becoming Mexican, 1930s–1960s.

Image: From Photographs That Humanize the Immigration Debate.

Leisy J. Abrego, Cecilia Menjívar, & Leah Schmalzbauer: Immigrant Families.

Leisy J. Abrego: Sacrificing Families: Navigating Laws, Labor, and Love Across Borders.

Abigail Leslie Andrews: Undocumented Politics Place, Gender, and the Pathways of Mexican Migrants.

David Bacon:

• The Children of NAFTA: Labor Wars on the U.S./Mexico Border.
• The Right to Stay Home: How US Policy Drives Mexican Migration.
• Communities without Borders: Images and Voices from the World of Migration.
• In the Fields of the North / En los campos del norte.

Sarah C. Bishop: Undocumented Storytellers: Narrating the Immigrant Rights Movement.

Noelle Kateri Brigden: The Migrant Passage: Clandestine Journeys from Central America.

Laura Briggs: Taking Children: A History of American Terror.

Alicia Schmidt Camacho: Migrant Imaginaries: Latino Cultural Politics in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands.

Francisco Cantú: The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border.

Leo Chavez: The Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation.

Aviva Chomsky:

• Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal.
• “They Take Our Jobs!”: and 20 Other Myths about Immigration.

Loren Collingwood & Benjamin Gonzalez O’Brien: Sanctuary Cities: The Politics of Refuge.

Wayne A. Cornelius & Hillary S. Kosnac: One Step In and One Step Out: The Lived Experience of Immigrant Participants in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Program.

Jason De Leon: The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail.

Joanna Dreby:

• Everyday Illegal: When Policies Undermine Immigrant Families.
• Divided by Borders: Mexican Migrants and Their Children.

Jorge Durand, Nolan J. Malone, & Douglas S. Massey: Beyond Smoke and Mirrors: Mexican Immigration in an Era of Economic Integration.

Kevin Escudero: Organizing While Undocumented: Immigrant Youth’s Political Activism under the Law.

Claire Fox: The Fence and the River: Culture and Politics at the U.S.-Mexico Border.

Paul Ganster & David E. Lorey: The U.S.-Mexico Border Today: Conflict and Cooperation in Historical Perspective.   

Angela S. García:Legal Passing: Navigating Undocumented Life and Local Immigration Law.

María Cristina García: Seeking Refuge: Central American Migration to Mexico, the United States, and Canada.

Roberto G. Gonzales: Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America.

Reyna Grande: The Distance Between Us: A Memoir.

Bill Ong Hing: Ethical Borders: NAFTA, Globalization, and Mexican Migration.

Z. Anthony Kruszewski, Tony Payan, & Kathleen Staudt: Human Rights along the U.S.–Mexico Border: Gendered Violence and Insecurity.

Catherine Lee: Fictive Kinship: Family Reunification and the Meaning of Race and Nation in American Immigration.

Jamie Longazel: Undocumented Fears: Immigration and the Politics of Divide and Conquer in Hazleton, Pennsylvania.

Alejandro Lugo: Fragmented Lives, Assembled Parts: Culture, Capitalism, and Conquest at the U.S.-Mexico Border.

Valeria Luiselli: Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions.

Daniel E. Martínez, Jeremy Slack, & Scott Whiteford: The Shadow of the Wall: Violence and Migration on the U.S.-Mexico Border.

Ana Raquel Minian: Undocumented Lives: The Untold Story of Mexican Migration.

Sonia Nazario: Enrique’s Journey: The Story of a Boy’s Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother.

Walter J. Nicholls:

• The Immigrant Rights Movement: The Battle over National Citizenship.
• The DREAMers: How the Undocumented Youth Movement Transformed the Immigrant Rights Debate.

Benjamin Gonzalez O’Brien: Handcuffs and Chain Link: Criminalizing the Undocumented in America.

MartinezOscar:The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail.

A. K. Sandoval-Strausz: Barrio America: How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City.

Rebecca M. Schreiber: The Undocumented Everyday: Migrant Lives and the Politics of Visibility.

Alexis M. Silver: Shifting Boundaries: Immigrant Youth Negotiating National, State, and Small-Town Politics.

David Spener: Clandestine Crossings: Migrants and Coyotes on the Texas-Mexico Border.

Luis Alberto Urrea:

• The Devil’s Highway: A True Story.
• Across the Wire: Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border.

Jose Antonio Vargas: Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen.

Karla Cornejo Villavicencio: The Undocumented Americans.

Laura Wides-Muñoz: The Making of a Dream: How a group of young undocumented immigrants helped change what it means to be American.

Chris Zepeda-Millán: Latino Mass Mobilization: Immigration, Racialization, and Activism.

Amada Armenta: Creating Community: Latina Nannies in a West Los Angeles Park.

Amada Armenta & Katharine M. Donato: What We Know About Unauthorized Immigration.

David Bacon: Bacon’s website is full of compelling photojournalism.

Elena Botella: Who Saved the American City? And Who Almost Destroyed It? Barrio America is a refreshing argument about the power of Latino migrantes—and a dispiriting reminder of how white racism affected American metropolises.

Aviva Chomsky: huge collection of articles at Muck Rack and The Nation.

Loren Collingwood & Benjamin Gonzalez O’Brien: A History of Sanctuary Cities in the United States.

Caitlin Dickerson: This Is the Face of an Undocumented Immigrant. Don’t Look Away.

The Equality Archive: Undocumented Women.

Kevin Escudero:Eight steps to establish support systems for undocumented students.

Angela S. García: Giving sanctuary to undocumented immigrants doesn’t threaten public safety—it increases it.  See her website for more articles. 

Roberto G. Gonzales: Here’s how DACA changed the lives of young immigrants, according to research: They got jobs, continued their education, and boosted the US economy.

Roberto S. Gonzales, Luisa L. Heredia, & Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales: Plyler’s Legacy: Undocumented Students, Schools, and Citizenship.

Reyna Grande: collection of articles at her personal website. 

Valeria Luiselli: Children chase after life, even if it ends up killing them.

Ana Raquel Minian:

• America Didn’t Always Lock Up Immigrants: Our current detention policies have very specific historical roots.
• Increased border security is why so many ‘Dreamers’ are here in the first place.
• We already have a big, beautiful wall: Mexico has long served as a barrier to keep unauthorized immigrants out of the United States.
• A firsthand look at the horrors of immigration detention: A practice so cruel that the United States ended it for a quarter-century.

Sonia Nazario: collection of articles at the New York Times. 

Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales:

• Undocumented, unafraid and unapologetic: Re-articulatory practices and migrant youth “illegality”.
• Navigating “illegality”: Undocumented youth & oppositional consciousness.

Walter Nicholls: The Coalitions That Can Win: Grassroots immigration groups are in the best position to thwart Trump’s mass deportation schemes.

Benjamin Gonzalez O’Brien: Is There a Connection Between Sanctuary Cities and Crime?

Pedro Rios: For 25 years, Operation Gatekeeper has made life worse for border communities.

Rebecca M. Schreiber: collection of articles at her website.

Mary Beth Sheridan: Trump says Mexico does nothing to stop illegal migration. The truth is more complicated. 

Luis Alberto Urrea: collection of articles and interviews.

Jose Antonio Vargas: My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant.

Zaragosa Vargas: A Primer on Immigrant Rights.

Verso: Migrant solidarity reading list.

Chris Zepeda-Millán: collection of articles at his website.

Image of an early U.S.-Mexico border marker. From an article by Rachel St. John, whose book “Line in the Sand” is the recommended starting point for this history.

Ana María Alonso: Thread of Blood: Colonialism, Revolution, and Gender on Mexico’s Northern Frontier.

C. J. Alvarez: Border Land, Border Water: A History of Construction on the US-Mexico Divide.

Geraldo L. Cadava: Standing on Common Ground: The Making of a Sunbelt Borderland.

Katherine Benton-Cohen: Borderline Americans: Racial Division and Labor War in the Arizona Borderlands.

Brian Delay: North American Borderlands.

Gabriela González: Redeeming La Raza: Transborder Modernity, Race, Respectability, and Rights.

Bernadine Marie Hernández: Border Bodies: Racialized Sexuality, Sexual Capital, and Violence in the Nineteenth-Century Borderlands.

S. Deborah Kang: The INS on the Line: Making Immigration Law on the US-Mexico Border, 1917-1954.

Jessica M. Kim: Imperial Metropolis: Los Angeles, Mexico, and the Borderlands of American Empire, 1865–1941.

Julian Lim: Porous Borders: Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands.

Robert E. May: Manifest Destiny’s Underworld: Filibustering in Antebellum America.

John Mckiernan-González: Fevered Measures: Public Health and Race at the Texas-Mexico Border, 1848–1942.

Eric V. Meeks: Border Citizens: The Making of Indians, Mexicans, and Anglos in Arizona.

Anthony P. Mora: Border Dilemmas: Racial and National Uncertainties in New Mexico, 1848–1912.

Andrew Needham: Power Lines: Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest.

Tore C. Olsson: Agrarian Crossings: Reformers and the Remaking of the US and Mexican Countryside.

Andrés Reséndez: Changing National Identities at the Frontier: Texas and New Mexico, 1800-1850.

Rachel St. John: Line in the Sand: A History of the Western U.S.-Mexico Border.

Andrew J. Torget: Seeds of Empire: Cotton, Slavery, and the Transformation of the Texas Borderlands, 1800-1850.

Samuel Truett: Fugitive Landscapes: The Forgotten History of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands.

Samuel Truett & Elliott Young: Continental Crossroads: Remapping U.S.-Mexico Borderlands History.

David J. Weber: The Mexican Frontier, 1821-1846: The American Southwest Under Mexico.