Undocumented Lives

The Untold Story of Mexican Migration

Ana Raquel Minian

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$29.95 • £21.95 • €27.00

ISBN 9780674737037

Publication: March 2018

* Academic Trade

336 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

6 halftones, 5 maps, 3 graphs, 3 tables

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Ana Raquel Minian is Assistant Professor of History and of Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University.

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In the New York Times, read Ana Raquel Minian on the historical roots of the Trump administration’s draconian immigrant detention policies
Listen to Minian’s interview with KPFA’s Against the Grain
Read a New Yorker feature on the right, protected by the Supreme Court decision in Plyler v. Doe, of undocumented immigrants to attend school—a decision that Minian argues helped cement a contrast in the American mind between innocent immigrant children and culpable immigrant adults
At the Washington Post, read an account by Minian and fellow historian Allyson Hobbs (author of A Chosen Exile: A History of Racial Passing in American Life) of their June 2018 visit to a McAllen, TX, immigration detention center and conversations with a small handful of “lucky ones” who have been released to relatives scattered across the country
On KJZZ (Phoenix, AZ)’s The Show, listen to Minian explain the changes between the 1960s and 1980s in how Americans viewed new immigrants from Mexico, and how immigrants viewed their own identities and long-term goals
Read Minian’s essay in the Washington Post on the ways in which Mexico itself has served as a “wall” keeping Central American migrants from reaching the United States
Watch the music video for “La Jaula del Oro” (“The Cage of Gold”) by the norteño band Los Tigres del Norte, which describes the Mexican immigrant experience in the United States
At Five Books, read an interview with Minian and see which books she recommends regarding America’s complex, highly racialized history of immigration
Read Minian’s Los Angeles Times essay arguing that tying DACA to border security ignores the process of “circular migration”: increased border security is why there are so many Dreamers
Read a Vox interview with Minian on how Donald Trump’s “sh*thole” comment should be considered in relation to America’s problematic history with eugenics
Watch Minian discuss DACA on Univision [in Spanish]
At the Atlantic, read Minian’s argument that a U.S.–Mexico border wall could have the unintended effect of discouraging Mexicans from leaving the U.S.
Listen to Minian discuss Undocumented Lives on the podcast New Books in History
At Univision, read about the oral histories that Minian collected while researching Undocumented Lives [in Spanish]
Read a Stanford News discussion with Minian about the research behind Undocumented Lives and the persisting misconceptions about Mexican migration in America
Watch a C-SPAN interview with Minian about 20th century Mexican migration to the United States

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2018 Betty and Alfred McClung Lee Book Award, Association for Humanist Sociology

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