Kids in cages, family separations, thousands dying in the desert.
She is author of two previous University of Arizona Press books, Convictions of the Heart and Lives on the Line..
About author(s): Miriam Davidson is a Tucson-based writer whose work focuses on border issues.
While death and suffering continue to occur, The Beloved Border shows us how the U.
S.-Mexico border could be, and in many ways already is, a model for peaceful coexistence worldwide.
She gives concrete examples of positive ways in which border people are promoting local culture and cross-border solidarity through health care, commerce, food, art, and music.
Davidson shares the history of sanctuary and argues that this social movement and others that have originated on the border are vanguards of larger global movements against the mistreatment of migrant workers and refugees, police brutality, and other abuses of human and natural rights.
The book also looks at the environmental impact of wall building and construction of a planned copper mine near Tucson, especially on the jaguar and other endangered species.
Davidson addresses subjects such as violence in Mexico, particularly against the press; cross-border gun smuggling and legal gun sales; the rise in migrant detentions, deportations, and deaths since the crackdown began; controversy over humanitarian aid in the desert; border patrol crimes and abuses; and the legal, ethical, and moral issues raised by increased police presence and militarization on the border.
The book draws on a variety of sources to explain how border issues intersect and how the current situation, while made worse under the Trump administration, is in fact the result of decades of prohibition, crackdowns, and wall building on the border.
This groundbreaking work of original reporting also gives Hope for the future, showing how border people are responding to the challenges with compassion and creativity.
These are just some of the dramatic stories recounted by veteran journalist Miriam Davidson in The Beloved Border.
Environmental devastation.
Police violence and corruption.
Kids in cages, family separations, thousands dying in the desert
