Building Walls: Excluding Latin People in the United States - Paperback

by Ernesto Castañeda (Author), Silvia Chávez-Baray (Contribution by), Eva Moya (Contribution by)

Building Walls puts the recent calls to build a border wall along the US-Mexico border into a larger social and historical context. Its three sections contrast categorical thinking and anti-immigrant speech with immigration as it is experienced by border residents and immigrants themselves.

Author Biography

Ernesto Castañeda is assistant professor of sociology at American University where he is affiliated with the Metropolitan Policy Center, the Center of Latin American and Latino Studies, and the Center on Health Risk and Society.