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COM.ONIXSUITE.9780872864863 03 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100601600 02 0872864863 03 9780872864863 15 9780872864863 BC <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText>City Lights Open Media</TitleText> <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText>Dying To Live</TitleText> <Subtitle>A Story of U.S. Immigration in an Age of Global Apartheid</Subtitle> 1 A01 Aizeki, Mizue Mizue Aizeki Mizue Aizeki is a documentary photographer. Her work has appeared in a variety of publications including Colorlines, The Progressive, L.A. Weekly, The Wall Street Journal, Z Magazine, and The Nation. She has also exhibited her work in several venues, such as the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts in San Francisco. Mizue was born in Japan. At the age of two, she and the rest of her family migrated to New York, where she was raised. In her early-20s, Mizue moved to Los Angeles, where she enrolled at the University of Calfornia, Los Angeles (UCLA), from which she received a BA in geography and a MA in urban and regional planning (with a focus on community organizing). It was during this time that Mizue became a political activist. Following graduation, Mizue worked for a many years as a researcher and strategist for a labor union with a very heavy immigrant membership. In addition to being the mother of two young girls, she continues to be a social justice activist, working on matters related to migrant and worker rights, and anti-racism. She is also a board member of Families For Freedom, a New York-based multi-ethnic defense network by and for immigrants facing and fighting deportation. Her documentary photography work has included projects on Palestinian refugees in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza, immigrant deportees and their families, taxi worker organizing in New York City, and Mexican migrants in Poughkeepsie, NY. 2 A01 Nevins, Joseph Joseph Nevins Joseph Nevins is the author of Operation Gatekeeper: The Rise of the Illegal Alien and the Making of the U.S.-Mexico Boundary (Routledge, 2002) and, more recently, A Not-so-distant Horror: Mass Violence in East Timor (Cornell University Press, 2005). His writings have appeared in numerous journalistic publications, including The Christian Science Monitor, the International Herald Tribune, The Nation, Los Angeles Times, The Progressive, and The Washington Post. He is an associate professor of geography at Vassar College. Born and raised in Boston to a working class family, he attended the city's public schools. He graduated with a Bachelor’s degree from Middlebury College in Vermont in 1987. It was as a student there that he became politically active, engaging in solidarity work with Central America, and efforts to end CIA recruitment on campus. He received a Ph.D. in geography in 1999 from UCLA. A long-time solidarity activist with East Timor, Joe is a founding member of the East Timor Action Network. He visited East Timor many times during the years of the Indonesian occupation and was the first American to meet with the East Timorese guerrilla movement. In 1999, he helped to organize and coordinate the largest non-governmental observer mission for the UN-run plebiscite in East Timor which resulted in the country’s eventual independence. A father of two young girls, Joe is a board member of the Tucson-based BorderLinks, a bi-national organization that offers experiential educational seminars along the border focusing on the issues of global economics, militarization, immigration, and popular resistance to oppression and violence. He is also a founder and board member of La’o Hamutuk, the East Timor Institute for Reconstruction Monitoring and Analysis. 01 eng 225 00 225 03 24 Internet CL Hierarchy California Writers 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Latin America 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Politics 01 A compelling account of U.S. immigration and border enforcement told through the journey of one man who perished in California's Imperial Valley while trying to reunite with his wife and child in Los Angeles. At a time when Republicans and Democrats alike embrace increasingly militaristic border enforcement policies under the guise of security, and local governments around the country are taking matters into their own hands, Dying to Live offers a timely confrontation to such prescriptions and puts a human face on the rapidly growing crisis. Moreover, it provides a valuable perspective on the historical geography of U.S.-Mexico relations, and immigration and boundary enforcement, illustrating its profound impact on people's lives, and deaths. In the end, the author offers a provocative, human-rights-based vision of what must be done to stop the fatalities and injustices endured by migrants and their loved ones. Dozens of stunning photos by Mizue Aizeki complement the text. For a sneak preview of some of Aizeki's photos: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/gp/49175434@N00/Hq3q95" target="blank"> Chapter 1: Introduction: The Bodies </a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/gp/49175434@N00/62hK8S" target="blank"> Chapter 2: The Desert</a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/gp/49175434@N00/o56GH3" target="blank"> Chapter 3: The Border</a> Praise for Dying To Live: "In Dying to Live, Joseph Nevins and Mizue Aizeki have produced an important and visually moving book that adds to our knowledge of the border and its place in history. Nevins' painstaking research documents the development of the Imperial Valley—its industrial agriculture, its divided cities, and the chasms between rich and poor, Mexican and anglo, that have marred its growth. Through the valley runs the border, and Nevins' accounts of the growth of border enforcement on the U.S. side, and the racism of its legal justifications, will be a strong weapon for human rights activists. Mizue Aizeki takes her camera and tells the story of Julio Cesar Gallegos, who died in the desert trying to make it across. Her images of the stacked bodies of border crossers held in refrigerator trucks, and the barrenness of the ocotillo cactus on the flat hardpan are eloquent testimony to the terrible risks and human costs imposed on migrants. Her beautifully composed portraits of Gallegos' family make a direct appeal to the heart in a way that words cannot. And her documentation of border protests and immigrant rights demonstrations, including the rows of jugs of water put out in the desert to save lives, are all compelling evidence that there is a struggle going on to halt the human rights crisis she and Nevins document." —David Bacon, author of Communities Without Borders: Images and Voices from the World of Migration "Joseph Nevins blows the cover off the scapegoating of "illegal" immigrants by meticulously and grippingly compiling the history of why so many try to come to the U.S. and, tragically, why so many die. This book strikes at our very moral core." —Deepa Fernandes, author of Targeted, Homeland Security and the Business of Immigration "…a fierce and courageous denunciation of the foul politics of immigration and the two-thousand mile tragedy of the Mexican border, snaking its way between two worlds, two nations, separated at birth but forever joined at the hip. Starting from one man's blackened corpse, the tale wends its way across the desert of racial amnesia to reveal the sources of America's reactionary (and futile) attempt at closure of a porous frontier. Deftly stitching together disparate times and places – from the Imperial Valley to Zacatecas to Mexicali and back to East L.A. - Nevins and Aizeki weave a memorial quilt to the hundreds of innocents in unmarked graves." —Richard Walker, professor of geography, UC Berkeley, and author of The Conquest of Bread and The Country in the City. "Dying to Live is a compelling, perceptive and invaluable book for our times. Our new apartheid, as explored here, is as bleak and hostile as the landscapes in which people lose their lives trying merely to survive. Those lives delineated here are unforgettable." —Susan Straight, author of A Million Nightingales and Highwire Moon "Invisible in life, like most exploited immigrants, Julio Cesar Gallegos now judges us from the hour of his terrible death. He reminds us – thanks to the passionate investigations of Nevins and Aizeki – that the eyeless corpses in the Imperial Valley are murder victims: abandoned to heat, thirst, and anonymous graves by a border politics compounded of historical ignorance and contempt for human rights." —<a href="http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100582330" target="blank">Mike Davis</a> is the author, most recently, of Planet of Slums and In Praise of Barbarians 02 The real story -- and human price -- of US/Mexico border enforcement. 08 ". . . a powerful, multifaceted study of Mexican and Central American migration to the US that combines historical analysis with a graphic narrative account of the economic and social factors that perpetuate it. . . . [Nevins] reminds us why we must tear down these artificial and illegitimate boundaries and allow migrants to find the same dream of a better life that so many Americans have had the privilege to live." — Gavin O'Toole The Latin American Review of Books 08 "Dying to Live is a powerful examination of the messy politics and human consequences of US immigration policies. Joseph Nevins skillfully weaves the personal story of Julio César Gallegos, a migrant who died attempting to cross the US-Mexico boundary, together with detailed historical research to explore the boundary's ideological construction, the USA's 'race-class-nation hierarchy’, and the role of law in shaping Americans’ geographical imagination." — Nancy Hiemstra Progress in Human Geography 08 "Nevins's book, thanks to excellent research and a nuanced application of theory, demonstrates not only professional excellence but also an ongoing commitment to justice and human rights. By calling the entire notion of a 'right to be here' into question, Dying to Live serves as a powerful antidote to nationalistic amnesia on the part of the U.S. public, which has been too willing to embrace a shortsighted version of U.S.-Mexican history. By analyzing enforcement in the space of the border, he has provided an extension of the concept of structural violence. Those of us living in border states, especially Arizona, owe Nevins our appreciation. He shows how one can analyze policy information in a way that clearly communicates how common racial constructions support and extend the state’s use of violence." North American Congress on Latin America 08 "Joseph Nevins's Dying to Live weaves the struggle of one family into the history of U.S. racism, global economic inequality, and 'nationalization' to provide a forceful indictment of global apartheid. Dying to Live is a hard-hitting book that should be read as a call to action. It breaks the silence surrounding migrant deaths at the hands of the power elite. Interspersed throughout the book are equally powerful photographs by Mizue Aizeki." —Gilda L. Ochoa Latin American Perspectives 08 "Dying to Live is a journey into the historically evolved and still evolving meanings and effects of the US–Mexico boundary.Through his analysis, that moves from the early nineteenth century to the present (pp.75–121), Nevins shows the shift in the ideological and material weight of the boundary from a line on a map to a set of practices of inclusion and exclusion. . . Anyone interested especially in migration in the US–Mexican region, or more generally in the effects borders bear in people's lives, should take a look at Nevins’s story." —Eeva Puumala Cooperation and Conflict 08 "[Nevins'] careful and well-written documentation of the historical and social antecedents of immigrant deaths on the desert conveys how absurd United States's politics of immigration and exclusion play out. By focusing first on geography - specifically the U.S. Mexico boundary and all that it implies in political and sociological terms - Nevins produces an ongoing accumulation of the prejudice and abuse that culminated in Gallegos' - and hundreds of other immigrants' - deaths. . . In spite of its title, Dying To Live is no tearjerker. Although Nevins makes no attempt to conceal where his sympathies lie, and pointedly criticizes U.S. policies and aggression, he focuses on facts, quotes, descriptions. And although one feels an immense sympathy for Gallegos and his American-born wife and children, the book engenders outrage, not tears." —Robert Joe Stout New Politics 08 "Dying to Live combines prodigious research, passionate argument, and masterful storytelling to describe the complicated landscape of U.S. immigration policies. . . Photographs by Mizue Aizeki appear throughout the book and add an element of human empathy that Nevins tries to cultivate in geography through story and argument. Dying to Live expands minds, ideas of borders, and notions of geography. . . Add Nevins book to your essential reading list." —Jillian McLaughlin Kosmopolitan 08 "Joseph Nevins' Dying to Live packs a many-sided, moving, and uncompromising account of the development of U.S. immigration and its associated politics into a short and readable book. . . . Rather than simply rebutting the myths of the anti-immigrant Right on economics, crime, etc., his book offers those movements a powerful challenge to the principles of 'nation-statism' that frame mainstream discussion of immigration. . . . By counterposing the growth of transnational ties to the growth of global apartheid, enforced by border and related 'nation-statist' practices, Nevins makes an eloquent and fundamental case against immigration restrictions as such. . . . Moving photographs by Mizue Aizeki add immediacy and layers of meaning." —Avery Wear International Socialist Review 08 "Dying to Live is an invaluable book—one which is as contextual as it is analytical, as factual as it is moving. . . . In a compelling, accessible story, Joseph Nevins guides his readers through the complexities and intricacies of immigration, boundary-making, and their human affects and realities . . . with a Howard Zinn-like attention to historical detail, Nevins provides a comprehensive accounting of the actors, circumstances, and dynamics that culminated to create the current situation at the United States' southern border, specifically focusing on the Imperial Valley region of California." Fellowship Magazine 08 "Ten years ago Julio César Gallegos, one of countless immigrants, attempted to reunite with his family in Los Angeles and died of dehydration while crossing the U.S.-Mexico border in California's Imperial Valley. In Dying to Live, Nevins not only tells Gallegos's story, but also presents the geographic, historical, and political context of the U.S-Mexico border. Gallegos's motivations, struggles, and sacrifices serve as examples throughout the book of both past and present social stratification, political hypocrisy, and 'global apartheid.' Including photographs and maps, the book details the history, policies, and economics that have driven and prevented Mexican migration to the United States. The social and economic links between the two countries are described, primarily in relation to the agricultural industry in the border states. The strength of this book lies in the wealth of research and information presented on the history and politics of the border regions of Mexico and California. Teens will not only find the author's information valuable, but will also revel in the sources presented in the bibliography. However, researchers looking for insight into migration through Mexico from other Latin American countries will not find much information in this title. The scholarly tone and depth of the material make this book best suited for advanced readers and researchers." School Library Journal 08 "Dying to Live interweaves meticulously documented history of Mexican immigration to the U.S. with the story of the Gallegos family's struggles. . .Nevins lays bare the overheated demonization of foreigners that has dominated U.S. politics since the September 11, 2001 Al Qaeda attacks. . .Nevins’s text is complemented by Mizue Aizeki’s powerful photos, which emphasize the basic humanity of poor people targeted by xenophobic U.S. border militarization policies. This book is the perfect antidote to the mantras of hate heard round the clock on right wing AM radio. It artfully shows the importance of solidarity with poor populations who are paying the price for corporate profiteering in the age of NAFTA and other such misleadingly-labeled 'free trade' agreements." --Ben Terrall Counterpunch 08 "A definitive criticism by author Joseph Nevins of the U.S.'s practices on immigration today. . . an eye opening account of immigration that is judicially defined as illegal -- and the cruelty that sometimes lies within. . . Dying to Live is a deftly written treatise on immigration, a must to those who want to further understand the subject." Midwest Book Review 08 "Julio César Gallegos became a subject of international news in 1998 by dying while trying to join his family in Los Angeles. Nevins . . . begins with his story as a case study, then widens his view to discuss the people, the border, the desert, and the bodies. Documentary photographer Mizue Aizeki provides black and white illustrations." Book News, Inc. 08 "[Author Joseph Nevins] attempts to answer difficult questions—like how do issues of identity play out in those unable to call a country a home and should people be allowed to move between the border without consequence or should there be stricter regulations? Nevins also writes about places along the border that seem to blend the Mexican and American cultures and identities, becoming a transnational space that, while united, still maintains ideological differences between the two nations. Dying to Live is well researched and well cited. The author allows the reader to come to his or her own conclusions about the issue. The conclusion I came to is that the issue is far more complicated than I could have imagined." —Kristin Conard Feminist Review 08 "Nevins places the U.S.-Mexico border in the context of global apartheid, a world system in which the privileges of an elite few and the poverty of the many are both increasing, aided by mechanisms of racial exclusion and 'nation-statism' . . . Informed by the layers of history that Nevins uncovers, we can place the blame for the thousands of deaths on the border where it belongs: on a system of global capitalism that needs workers to cross borders but also needs to keep them oppressed and controlled. . . Powerful photographs by Mizue Aizeki keep the humanity and agency of immigrants and their families at the forefront of this important book." —Gillian Russom The Socialist Worker 08 "Nevins writes a compelling indictment of this nation's immigration policy directed toward Mexico, centering on one Mexican immigrant, Julio Cesar Gallegos, 23, who died in 1998 along with six others in the California desert in Imperial Valley. Gallegos had been visiting family in Juchipila, in the state of Zacatecas, and was trying to return to his wife, a U.S. citizen, and 2-year-old son, with whom he lived in East L.A. Nevins condemns this tragedy not with emotional rhetoric but rather via an extensive, thoroughly documented explication of the political and economic history of both Imperial Valley and Juchipila, Mexico. Contributing factors to the conundrum of our current immigration policies include irrigation of the valley in the early twentieth century, the Mexican Revolution and the resulting Immigration Act of 1917, World War II and the Bracero program, the rise and fall of the UFW (and the resulting decline of farm workers' unions), and California's 1994 ballot measure (Proposition 187) denying public services to undocumented migrants. Nevins' is a thoughtful and elucidating exploration of this multifaceted problem." Booklist 04 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100601600/images/87286100601600L.jpg 07 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100601600/images/87286100601600S.jpg http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100601600 City Lights Publishers 01 City Lights Publishers 20080501 08 16 oz City Lights Books 01 WORLD 20 20080501 01 02 16.95 USD