Episode description

Alejandra Oliva, author of Rivermouth, came by to catch us up on the last few decades of American immigration policy--and to talk about how the world as we know it is not the world as it must be.

Alejandra's website:

olivalejandra.com

Read Rivermouth, out now in paperback:

https://bookshop.org/a/10832/9781662602672

Further Reading:

Greg Grandin The End of the Myth (2020)

Jonathan Blitzer Everyone Who is Gone is Here (2024) 

David Bacon The Right to Stay Home (2014) 

Dara Lind, "The disastrous, forgotten 1996 law that created today's immigration problem."  Vox, April 2016. 

Heather Timmons. "No one really knows what ICE is supposed to do. Politicians Love that." Quartz, July 2018. 

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Links:

http://olivalejandra.com/
https://bookshop.org/a/10832/9781662602672
https://bookshop.org/a/10832/9781250214850
https://bookshop.org/p/books/everyone-who-is-gone-is-here-the-united-states-central-america-and-the-lives-in-between-jonathan-blitzer
https://bookshop.org/a/10832/9780807061213
https://www.vox.com/2016/4/28/11515132/iirira-clinton-immigration
https://qz.com/1316098/what-is-ice-supposed-to-do-the-strange-history-of-us-immigration-and-customs-enforcement

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