Borders Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/borders/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:17:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png Borders Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/tag/borders/ 32 32 Containment and Care in the Sonoran Desert https://www.publicbooks.org/containment-and-care-in-the-sonoran-desert/ Tue, 04 Jun 2024 15:00:55 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=56398 Prevention through deterrence did not prevent or deter migration. Instead, it corralled migration, hid it from view, and made it deadly.

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]]> On the Edges of Fascism and Other Unsettling Possibilities https://www.publicbooks.org/on-the-edges-of-fascism-and-other-unsettling-possibilities/ Mon, 03 Jun 2024 15:00:17 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=56518 “Borders generate more human possibilities: citizens standing for the rights of noncitizens, finding them refuge, seeking them sanctuary, pushing at the margins of the state and its sovereignty.”

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]]> “This Is Not for the Policy People”: Ninaj Raoul on Making Change for Migrant Lives https://www.publicbooks.org/this-is-not-for-the-policy-people-ninaj-raoul-on-making-change-for-migrant-lives/ Fri, 31 May 2024 15:00:34 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=56502 “I’d never imagine that in 2024 we would have tents of refugees in Brooklyn. … We’ve totally gone backward.”

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]]> Can Literature Cure Law? Should It? https://www.publicbooks.org/can-literature-cure-law-should-it/ Tue, 05 Mar 2024 16:00:37 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=55408 The two disciplines, law and literature, may converge creatively, part amicably, and go their ways dispensing their respective forms of redress.

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]]> Raquel Gutiérrez on “Brown Neon: Essays” https://www.publicbooks.org/raquel-gutierrez-on-brown-neon-essays/ Wed, 12 Jul 2023 15:00:29 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=52897 “Arts, writing, journalism—these things are born from our passions … this thing that is our weak spot.”

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]]> “No One Is There Who Has Somewhere Better to Be”: Talking Migration with Levi Vonk https://www.publicbooks.org/migration-levi-vonk-border-hacker/ Wed, 19 Oct 2022 15:00:23 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=50336 “The asylum system is a rejection of anything that disrupts American universalism. It’s kicking people out who offer an alternative view of the world.”

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]]> Riding with Du Bois https://www.publicbooks.org/racial-divisions-railroads-infrastructure/ Tue, 18 Oct 2022 15:00:33 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=50378 Railroads—in the Jim Crow South just as in today’s Ukraine—employ physical infrastructure to create racial divisions.

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]]> Public Thinker: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on How to Upend Settler Colonialism https://www.publicbooks.org/roxanne-dunbar-ortiz-how-to-upend-settler-colonialism/ Wed, 07 Sep 2022 15:00:25 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=49906 “One of my objectives in writing the book was a plea to immigrants to not become settlers.”

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]]> Borders Cast Long Shadows on Nations: Talking with Malini Sur https://www.publicbooks.org/malini-sur-jungle-passports-india-bangladesh-border/ Wed, 02 Mar 2022 16:00:42 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=47458 “Borders continue to gather life’s promises, even when walls and checkpoints brutally divide nations and societies.”

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]]> Migrant Lives, Global Stories https://www.publicbooks.org/migrant-lives-global-stories/ Mon, 21 Feb 2022 15:55:15 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=47592 How can migrants speak? And what can listening to them reveal about the system of national sovereignty, the persistence of legal exclusion, and the longing for home?

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