Stories by Joseph Nevins
Joseph Nevins is assistant professor of geography at Vassar College and the author of "Operation Gatekeeper: The Rise of the 'Illegal Alien' and the Making of the U.S.-Mexico Boundary" (Routledge, 2002).
Posted on Nov 1, 2010, Source: AlterNet
Flying is the single most ecologically costly act of individual consumption. Can we kick the habit, or at least cut back?
Posted on Jun 22, 2009, Source: New America Media
Each year the U.S. government deports tens of thousands of non-citizens, to countries to which they often have tenuous ties.
Posted on Aug 4, 2006, Source: New America Media
The body count keeps growing as the crackdown intensifies against people who were born 'on the wrong side' of a geographical boundary.
Posted on Aug 6, 2002, Source: Pacific News Service
The rising death toll among U.S.-Mexico border crossers is the predictable outcome of disparities in wealth, inhumane border enforcement policies and our hunger for cheap labor.
