Eileen Truax

In an era of increasing anti-immigrant sentiment and bigotry, each of these 13 stories illuminates the issues affecting the Mexican community and shows the breadth of a frequently stereotyped population. Dreamers and their allies, those who care about immigration justice, and anyone interested in the experience of Mexicans in the US will respond to these stories of Mexican immigrants (some documented, some not) illuminating their complex lives. Regardless of status, many are subjected to rights violations, inequality, and violence--all of which existed well before the Trump administration--and have profound feelings of being unwanted in the country they call home. There's Monica Robles, the undocumented mother of three US citizens who is literally confined to a strip of territory between two checkpoints--one at the Mexico border and one twenty-seven miles north of the border. We meet Jeanette Vizguerra, who came to symbolize the sanctuary movement when she took shelter in a Denver church in February 2017 to avoid deportation. (Later that year, Time magazine named her one of the one hundred most influential people in the world.) There's Daniel Rodriguez, the first undocumented immigration lawyer in Arizona to successfully obtain a license to practice. Alberto Mendoza, who suffered persecution as a gay man for years, in 2013 founded Honor 41, a national Latina/o LGBTQ organization that promotes positive images of their community. After crossing the border illegally with his mother as a child, Al Labrada later joined the military to get on a path to citizenship; in March 2017, he was promoted to captain in the Los Angeles Police Department. These and eight other stories will broaden how you think about Mexicans in America.

Stories of Resistance and Resilience from Mexicans Living in the United States

How Does It Feel to Be Unwanted?

Juan Villoro

Juan Gabriel Vásquez

Martín Caparrós

Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá

Cristina Rivera Garza

Gabriela Wiener

Rodrigo Fresán

Alberto Fuguet

Guillem Martínez

Marcela Turati

Julio Villanueva Chang

Leila Guerriero

María Moreno

Cristian Alarcón

Juan Pablo Meneses

Alberto Salcedo Ramos

Fabrizio Mejía Madrid

Edgardo Cozarinsky

Sabrina Duque

Jordi Costa

Juanita León

Maye Primera

Jaime Bedoya

Mónica Baró

En el décimo aniversario de su edición original, Mejor que ficción. Crónicas ejemplares regresa a las librerías con un nuevo prólogo y con nuevos textos. Refuerza así su condición de antología de referencia del periodismo narrativo en nuestra lengua, al tiempo que se puede leer como una vuelta al mundo y como un catálogo de estrategias y estilos para contar la difícil realidad de este cambio de siglo. El libro contiene crónicas de Juan Villoro, Leila Guerriero, Sabrina Duque, Jordi Costa, Alberto Fuguet, Alberto Salcedo Ramos, Eileen Truax, Juan Pablo Meneses, Juanita León, Cristian Alarcón, Marcela Turati, Edgardo Cozarinsky, Maye Primera, María Moreno, Julio Villanueva Chang, Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Fabrizio Mejía Madrid, Cristina Rivera Garza, Jaime Bedoya, Rodrigo Fresán, Mónica Baró, Guillem Martínez, Gabriela Wiener, Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá y Martín Caparrós. Incluye además un extenso diccionario de cronistas iberoamericanos, con centenares de invitaciones a seguir leyendo.

Crónicas ejemplares

Mejor que ficción

Dreamers is a movement book for the generation brought to the United States as children—and now fighting to live here legally Of the approximately twelve million undocumented immigrants living in the United States, as many as two million came as children. They grow up here, going to elementary, middle, and high school, and then the country they call home won’t—in most states—offer financial aid for college and they’re unable to be legally employed. In 2001, US senator Dick Durbin introduced the DREAM Act to Congress, an initiative that would allow these young people to become legal residents if they met certain requirements. And now, more than ten years later, in the face of congressional inertia and furious opposition from some, the DREAM Act has yet to be passed. But recently, this young generation has begun organizing, and with their rallying cry “Undocumented, Unapologetic, and Unafraid” they are the newest face of the human rights movement. In Dreamers, Eileen Truax illuminates the stories of these men and women who are living proof of a complex and sometimes hidden political reality that calls into question what it truly means to be American.

An Immigrant Generation's Fight for Their American Dream

Dreamers

A Mexican-American lawyer exposes corruption in the US asylum procedure and despotism in the Mexican government From a storefront law office in the US border city of El Paso, Texas, one man set out to tear down the great wall of indifference raised between the US and Mexico. Carlos Spector has filed hundreds of political asylum cases on behalf of human rights defenders, journalists, and political dissidents. Though his legal activism has only inched the process forward—98 percent of refugees from Mexico are still denied asylum—his myriad legal cases and the resultant media fallout has increasingly put US immigration policy, the corrupt state of Mexico, and the political basis of immigration, asylum, and deportation decisions on the spot. We Built the Wall is an immersive, engrossing look at the new front in the immigration wars. It follows the gripping stories of people like Saúl Reyes, forced to flee his home after a drug cartel murdered several members of his family, and Delmy Calderón, a forty-two-year-old woman leading an eight-woman hunger strike in an El Paso detention center. Truax tracks the heart-wrenching trials of refugees like Yamil, the husband and father who chose a prison cell over deportation to Mexico, and Rocío Hernández, a nineteen-year-old who spent nearly her entire life in Texas and is now forced to live in a city where narcotraffickers operate with absolute impunity.

How the US Keeps Out Asylum Seekers from Mexico, Central America and Beyond

We Built the Wall

How the U.S. Keeps Out Asylum Seekers from Mexico, Central America and Beyond

Eileen Truax

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