Suggestions for Further
Reading – Migrant Spirituality
(Cadged from Marjorie King, Suzanne Hesh, Bob
Phillips, and Roxanne Ramos)
Readings about migrants in Southern Arizona
Ferguson, Kathryn, Norma A. Price, and Ted
Parks. Crossing with the Virgin: Stories from
the Migrant Trail.
Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2010.
Regan, Margaret. Detained and Deported: Stories of Immigrant Families
Under Fire.
Boston: Beacon Press, 2015. This Tucson
Weekly
columnist takes an intimate look at the people ensnared by the US detention and
deportation system, the largest in the world. Using volatile Arizona as a case study, with special
attention to the separation of families and the treatment of women, she
conjures up the harshness of the detention centers and travels to Mexico to
report on the fate of deportees stranded far from their families in the United
States. The book is a humanizing and rare glimpse into the lives of those
caught up in the US immigration enforcement cycle.
Regan, Margaret. The Death of Josseline: Immigration
Stories from the Arizona Borderlands.
Boston: Beacon Press, 2010.
Urrea, Luis Alberto. The Devil’s Highway: A
True Story.
New York: Back Bay Books, Little, Brown
Publishing, 2004.
Migration and the Church
Brown, Robert McAfee. Unexpected News: Reading the Bible with Third World Eyes. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1984.
Carroll, M. Daniel R. Christians at the Border: Immigration,
the Church, and the Bible. Grand Rapids: Brazos Press,
Baker Publishing, 2008.
Campese, Gioacchino, CS. El Via Crucis de
Jesus Migrante, The Way of the Cross of the Migrant Jesus. Liguori, MO: Liguori Press, 2006.
De La Torre, Miguel A. Reading the Bible from
the Margins. Maryknoll:
Orbis Books, 2002.
Groody, Daniel G. and Gioacchino Campese,
editors. A Promised Land, A Perilous Journey: Theological
Perspectives on Migration. Notre Dame, IN: University
of Notre Dame Press, 2008.
Kim, Fr. Simon C., compiler. El Via Crucis: The Migrant’s Way of the Cross. Liguori, MO: Liguori Press, 2013.
Maruskin, Joan M. Immigration and the Bible: A
Guide for Radical Welcome. New York: Women’s Division,
The General Board of Global Ministries, United Methodist Church, 2012.
Myers, Ched and Mathew Colwell. Our God is
Undocumented: Biblical Faith and Immigrant
Justice.
Maryknoll: Orbis Books, 2012.
Shaull, Richard and Richard Falk. Naming the
Idols: Biblical Alternatives for U.S. Foreign
Policy. Meyer-Stone
Books, 1988.
Soerens, Matthew and Jenny Hwang Yang. Welcoming
the Stranger: Justice, Compassion and Truth in
the Immigration Debate, Westmont, IL: InterVarsity
Press, 2009.
Bowden, Peg. Land of Hard Edges: Serving the
Front Lines of the Border. (Tucson: Peer Publishing, 2014)
Dear, Michael. Why Walls Won't Work:
Repairing the US-Mexico Divide. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013)
Oscar Martinez, The Beast: Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail. (Verso, 2013)
Montoya, Mace. The Deportation of Wopper
Barraza: A Novel.
(2014)
Cross-Border Tour Suggested Reading List (Border Community Alliance)
The Devil’s Highway: A True Story, Luis Alberto Urrea,
Bay Back Books 2005
La Frontera: The Border, blog by
BCA board member, Peg Bowden, www.arroya.org
Mexico: What Everyone Needs
to Know, Roderic AI Camp, Oxford University Press 2011
Arizona’s Senate Bill 1070: A Case Study for
State-Sponsored Immigration Policy, an honors thesis by USF graduate student
and BCA/FESAC summer 2012 intern Ryan Murphy is available by contacting BCA at
the address below.
Why Walls Won’t Work – repairing the
US-Mexico divide,
Michael Dear, Oxford University Press, 2013.
Two Nations Indivisible: Mexico, The United
States, And The Road Ahead By Shannon K. O'Neil, Oxford University Press, Inc. 2013
Border Community
Alliance
In partnership
with Fundación del Empresariado Sonorense A.C. (FESAC)
La Entrada de
Tubac / 2221 E. Frontage Rd., Building F, Suite 201 / Tubac, AZ / 520.398.3229
Mail: PO Box
1863, Tubac, AZ. 85646
Kino Border Initiative (KBI) Movie List
By: Roxane Ramos
Over the past two decades, many films have
addressed the trials and struggles, hopes and dreams of families and
individuals who cross the U.S.–Mexico border to seek a better life and to be
with loved ones. In addition to the titles listed below, there are also My
Family
(1995), Sin Nombre
(2009), and A Better Life (2013).
Now a classic and one of the first movies about
the struggles and hardships facing those who choose to migrate to the U.S., El
Norte
(1983) by Gregory Nava relates the experience of a teen-aged brother and sister
who flee the violence of their home in Guatemala for the promise of a better
life in Los Angeles.
Among the four narratives Alejandro González
Iñárritu includes in Babel (2006), one details the interwoven lives of a
San Diego family and their undocumented Mexican nanny and how crossing the
border to attend a family wedding can result in painful and irreparable
consequences.
Under the Same Moon (2007), directed by
Patricia Riggen, makes palpable the dire and complicated decisions faced by
separated families. An adolescent boy leaves Mexico after his grandmother dies
to seek out his mother who works as a maid in the U.S.
In Who Is Dayani Cristal? (2013), actor and
activist Gael García Bernal retraces the journey of a migrant who died along
the stretch of desert known as “the corridor of death,” providing a rare view
of what migrants experience on el camino. Each year 400–500 migrants lose their
lives during the crossing. For more information about the tragedy of migrant
deaths in the desert, please see this article from the KBI July issue of Passages: www.kinoborderinitiative.org/deaths-in-the-desert/.
Documented (2013), a film by Pulitzer-Prize-winning
journalist José Antonio Vargas, recounts Vargas’s experience of migrating to
the U.S. at the age of 12 from the Philippines to live with his documented
grandparents. Vargas speaks out about his undocumented status in the hopes of
illuminating the challenges of mixed-status families and advocating for policy
change.
KBI Reading List By: Roxane Ramos
The list below covers
only a small selection of the books available about the migrant experience,
immigration and border life. They include works of fiction, non-fiction
volumes, art books, memoirs, and children’s books, and all help to inform us
about the issues of immigration, cultural challenges, family separation and
even basic survival.
Non-fiction:
The Devil’s Highway: A True Story
Luis Alberto Urrea, Little, Brown and Company,
2004.
Enrique’s Journey
Sonia Nazario, Random House, 2006.
The World of Mexican
Migrants: The Rock and the Hard Place
Judith Adler
Hellman, New Press, 2008.
Dead in Their Tracks:
Crossing America’s Borderlands in the New Era
John Annerino, University of Arizona Press, 2009.
Crossing With the
Virgin: Stories from the Migrant Trail
Kathryn Ferguson,
Norma A. Price and Ted Parks, University of Arizona Press, 2010.
Line in the Sand: A
History of the Western U.S.–Mexico Border
Rachel St.
John, Princeton University Press, 2011.
Run for the Border:
Vice and Virtue in U.S.–Mexico Border Crossings
Steven Bender, NYU Press, 2012.
The Beast: Riding
the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail
Oscar Martínez, Verso,
2013.
Up Against the Wall:
Reimagining the U.S.–Mexico Border
Edward S. Casey and
Mary Watkins, University of Texas Press, 2014.
Memoir:
Becoming Dr. Q: My
Journey from Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon
Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa (with Mim Eichler Rivas), University of
California Press, 2011.
Crossing Borders:
Personal Essays
Sergio Troncoso, Arte Público Press, 2011.
Taking Hold: From
Migrant Childhood to Columbia University
Francisco Jiménez,
HMH Books for Young Readers, 2015.
The Land of Hard
Edges: Serving the Front Lines of the Border
Peg Bowden,
Peer Publishing, 2014.
Fiction:
Women Hollering Creek
and Other Stories
Sandra Cisneros, Vintage, 1992.
The Long Night of
White Chickens
Francisco Goldman, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1992.
Under the Feet of
Jesus
Helena María Viramontes, Plume, 1996.
Mother Tongue
Demetria Martínez, One World/Ballantine, 1997.
The River Flows North
Graciela Limón, Arte Público Press, 2009.
The Madonnas of Echo
Park: A Novel
Brando Skyhorse, Free Press. 2011.
Art:
Ambos Nogales:
Intimate Portraits of the U.S.–Mexico Border
Lawrence Taylor, School of American Research Press, 2002.
Crossings:
Photographs from the U.S.–Mexico Border
Alex Webb, Essay by
Tom Miller, Monacelli Press, 2003.
Curating at the Edge:
Artists Respond to the U.S./Mexico Border
Kate
Bonansinga, University of Texas Press, 2014.
Children: My Name Is
Jorge (poems for ages 4–8)
Jane Medina, WordSong, 1999.
My Diary from Here to
There/Mi diario de aqui hasta allá (for ages 7–10)
Amada Irma Pérez, Children’s Book Press, 2002.
From North to
South/Del norte al sur (for ages 6–9)
René Laínez,
Children’s Book Press, 2010.
In my Family/En mi
familia (for ages 7–12)
Carmen Garza, Children’s Book
Press, 2013.
Pancho Rabbit and the
Coyote: A Migrant’s Tale (for ages 6–9)
Duncan
Tonatuih, Harry N. Abrams, 2013.
Return to Sender (for ages 8–12)
Julia Alvarez, Yearling, 2013.
