Immigration with Alejandra Oliva

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:

bookshop.org/a/10832/9781662602672
Further Reading:
Greg Grandin The End of the Myth (bookshop.org/a/10832/9781250214850)(2020)
Jonathan Blitzer Everyone Who is Gone is Here (bookshop.org/p/books/everyone-who-is-gone-is-h…)(2024)
David Bacon The Right to Stay Home (bookshop.org/a/10832/9780807061213) (2014)
Dara Lind, "The disastrous, forgotten 1996 law that created today's immigration problem (vox.com/2016/4/28/11515132/iirira-clinton-immi…)." Vox, April 2016.
Heather Timmons. "No one really knows what ICE is supposed to do. Politicians Love that. (qz.com/1316098/what-is-ice-supposed-to-do-the-…)" Quartz, July 2018.
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