Author: Heide Castañeda File Type: pdf Borders of Belonging investigates a pressing but previously unexplored aspect of immigration in Americathe impact of immigration policies and practices not only on undocumented migrants, but also on their family members, some of whom possess a form of legal status. Heide Castaneda reveals the trauma, distress, and inequalities that occur daily, alongside the stratification of particular family members access to resources like education, employment, and health care. She also paints a vivid picture of the resilience, resistance, creative responses, and solidarity between parents and children, siblings, and other kin.Castanedas innovative ethnography combines fieldwork with individuals and family groups to paint a full picture of the experiences of mixed-status families as they navigate the emotional, social, political, and medical difficulties that inevitably arise when at least one family member lacks legal status. Exposing the extreme conditions in the heavily-regulated U.S.Mexico borderlands, this book presents a portentous vision of how the further encroachment of immigration enforcement would affect millions of mixed-status families throughout the country.**ReviewIn this superior work of scholarship, Heide Castaneda allows readers to experience the sorrow, pain, and trauma current immigration laws and practices have inflicted not just on undocumented migrants, but also on their family members with some form of legal status. Engaging and brilliantly observed, Borders of Belonging makes an incredibly timely and policy-relevant argument about the interlocking fates within mixed-status families. This book is poised for instant success within and beyond the classroom.--Roberto G. Gonzales author of Lives in Limbo Undocumented and Coming of Age in America This books investigations into sibling relationships, the Rio Grande region, and the impacts of illegalization on U.S. citizen family members is important and original. Through the use of compassionate personal narratives, Castaneda humanizes the anguish and resilience of the books protagonists. An essential and engrossing read.--Susan Bibler Coutin University of California, Irvine Borders of Belonging is a brilliant, powerful, unprecedented book. It is an absolute must read for everyone. This book is critical not only for all who are interested in immigration in the United States and around the world, but also for anyone who cares about families, children, and parents. Castaneda skillfully portrays real families in the Rio Grande Valley who are navigating the unintended, harmful consequences of immigration and social policies, displaying their deep compassion and care for one another. As they experience powerful discrimination and racism, these families display resilience and solidarity across lines of difference, actively resisting inequality in their midst. The families and individuals--immigrants and citizens--whom the reader comes to know in these pages offer us all models for a more healthy and equal society and teach us important lessons for our communities, schools, health care systems, and public policies.--Seth M. Holmes author of Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies About the Author Heide Castaneda is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of South Florida. She is a co-editor of *Unequal Coverage The Experience of Health Care Reform in the United States * (2017).

Author: Noam Chomsky File Type: epub Chomsky is a global phenomenon . . . perhaps the most widely read voice on foreign policy on the planet.New York Times Book ReviewUnwavering political contrarian Noam Chomsky smart-bombs the US militarys global Interventions. Shock and awe!Vanity FairBecause We Say So presents more than thirty concise, forceful commentaries on US politics and global power. Written between 2011 and 2015, Noam Chomskys arguments forge a persuasive counter-narrative to official accounts of US politics and policies during global crisis. Find here classic Chomsky on the increasing urgency of climate change, the ongoing impact of Edward Snowdens whistleblowing, nuclear politics, cyberwar, terrorism, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, and the Middle East, security and state power, as well as deeper reflections on the Obama doctrine, political philosophy, the Magna Carta, and the importance of a commons to democracy.Because We Say So is the third in a series of books by Chomsky published by City Lights Publishers that includes Making the Future (2012) and Interventions (2007), a book banned by US military censors. Taken together, the three books present a complete collection of the articles Chomsky writes regularly for the New York Times Syndicate, and are largely ignored by newspapers in the United States. Because We Say So offers fierce, accessible, timely, gloves-off political writing by Americas foremost public intellectual and political dissident.Noam Chomsky is one of the worlds most well-known critics of US policy. He has published numerous groundbreaking and best-selling books on global politics, history, and linguistics. **