"From award-winning journalist and priest Cristina Rathbone comes this remarkable work of reportage about a community of people at the US and Mexico border. In The Asylum Seekers, Rathbone renders in blistering detail the story of people camped at the foot of a bridge: the trauma they carry, the community they create, and the faith they maintain"-- Provided by publisher.

Heraldo’s parents and two-year-old brother had arrived in Nogales, Sonora, a few days earlier, two months after fleeing their village in Venezuela.

Table of contents for Journal on Migration and Human Security, 12, 3, Sep 01, 2024

As immigration emerges as a top election issue, our corps members documented the complex truth about immigration to the United States

"Rivermouth is a polemic arguing for porous borders, a decriminalization of immigration, a more open sense of what we owe one another, and a willingness to extend radical empathy"--;In this powerful and deeply felt memoir of translation, storytelling, and borders, Alejandra Oliva, a Mexican-American translator and immigrant justice activist, offers a powerful chronical of her experience interpreting at the US-Mexico border. Having worked with asylum seekers since 2016, she knows all too well the gravity of taking someone's trauma and delivering it to the warped demands of the U.S. immigration system. As Oliva's stunning prose recounts the stories of the people she's met through her work, she also traces her family's long and fluid relationship to the border--each generation born on opposite sides of the Rio Grande.