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Dying to Live by Joseph Nevins, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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Dying to Live by Joseph Nevins, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Dying to Live by Joseph Nevins, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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Dying to Live by Joseph Nevins, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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A compelling account of U. S. immigration and border enforcement told through the journey of one man who perished in California's Imperial Valley while trying to reunite with his wife and child in Los Angeles. At a time when Republicans and Democrats alike embrace increasingly militaristic border enforcement policies under the guise of security, and local governments around the country are taking matters into their own hands, Dying to Live offers a timely confrontation to such prescriptions and puts a human face on the rapidly growing crisis. Moreover, it provides a valuable perspective on the historical geography of U. S./Mexico relations, and immigration and boundary enforcement, illustrating its profound impact on people's lives and deaths. In the end, the author offers a provocative, human-rights-based vision of what must be done to stop the fatalities and injustices endured by migrants and their loved ones. Praise forDying To Live:InDying to Live, Joseph Nevins and Mizue Aizeki have produced an important and visually moving book that adds to our knowledge of the border and its place in history. Nevins' painstaking research documents the development of the Imperial Valley-its industrial agriculture, its divided cities, and the chasms between rich and poor, Mexican and anglo, that have marred its growth. Through the valley runs the border, and Nevins' accounts of the growth of border enforcement on the U. S. side, and the racism of its legal justifications, will be a strong weapon for human rights activists. Mizue Aizeki takes her camera and tells the story of Julio Cesar Gallegos, who died in the desert trying to make it across. Her images of the stacked bodies of border crossers held in refrigerator trucks, and the barrenness of the ocotillo cactus on the flat hardpan are eloquent testimony to the terrible risks and human costs imposed on migrants. Her beautifully composed portraits of Gallegos' family make a direct appealto the heart in a way that words cannot. And her documentation of border protests and immigrant rights demonstrations, including the rows of jugs of water put out in the desert to save lives, are all compelling evidence that there is a struggle going on to halt the human rights crisis she and Nevins document."-David Bacon, author ofCommunities Without Borders: Images and Voices from the World of Migration"Joseph Nevins blows the cover off the scapegoating of 'illegal' immigrants by meticulously and grippingly compiling the history of why so many try to come to the U. S. and, tragically, why so many die. This book strikes at our very moral core."-Deepa Fernandes, author ofTargeted, Homeland Security and the Business of Immigration"A fierce and courageous denunciation of the foul politics of immigration and the two-thousand mile tragedy of the Mexican border, snaking its way between two worlds, two nations, separated at birth but forever joined at the hip. Starting from one man's blackened corpse, the tale wends its way across the desert of racial amnesia to reveal the sources of America's reactionary (and futile) attempt at closure of a porous frontier. Deftly stitching together disparate times and places-from theImperial Valley to Zacatecas to Mexicali and back to East L. A.-Nevins and Aizeki weave a memorial quilt to the hundreds of innocents in unmarked graves."-Richard Walker, professor of geography, UC Berkeley, and author ofThe Conquest of Bread andThe Country in the City."Dying to Live is a compelling, perceptive and invaluable book for our times. Our new apartheid, as explored here, is as bleak and hostile as the landscapes in which people lose their lives trying merely to survive. Those lives delineated here are unforgettable."-Susan Straight, author ofA Million Nightingales andHighwire Moon"Invisible in life, like most exploited immigrants, Julio Cesar Gallegos now judges us from the hour of his terrible death. He reminds us-thanks to the passionate investigations of Nevins and Aizeki-that the eyeless corpses in the Imperial Valley are murder victims: abandoned to heat, thirst, and anonymous graves by a border politics compounded of historical ignorance and contempt for human rights."-Mike Davis, author ofPlanet of Slums andIn Praise of Barbarians" | Dying to Live by Joseph Nevins, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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