Social Issues: Despite the extensive coverage in the U.S. media of the southern border and Donald Trump's proposed wall, most English speakers have had little access to the multitude of perspectives from Mexico on the ongoing crisis. Boullosa and Quintero redress this imbalance with this collection of essays, translated into English for the first time, drawing on writing by journalists, novelists, and documentary-makers who are Mexican or based in Mexico. They discuss important questions, including the history of U.S.-Mexican relations, and questions of sovereignty, citizenship, and borders. -- adapted from jacket.

Introduction -- Snow and borders -- Conversations with the wall -- After the white noise -- Please don't feed the gringos -- Asylum under siege: why does immigration law fail to protect women and children from state-sanctioned violence? -- Language solidarity: how to create a force field with words -- Rape and the idea of Mexico -- Aeschylus and the migrants -- Droplets -- Barbarians in the presence of barbarians -- The dilemma: to migrate, or not to migrate -- Make art, not walls -- Notes from "El cuartito" -- Politics of exclusion, politics of integration -- A wall that threatens biodiversity -- Back to Tijuana -- Clay migrants -- Inventing the enemy: the border in the Trump era -- Of nomads and heroes -- Walls of air -- A wall to divide the desert. .