Kelley Common Read 2022: The Far Away Brothers

The Far Away Brothers

 Resources for incorporating The Far Away Brothers into your course

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Violence in El Salvador

• "El Salvador's Ghost Town" by Sarah Esther Maslin (The Nation, April 2017) 
• "Bukele’s Politicization of the Military Revives Old Fears in El Salvador" by Christine Wade (World Politics Review, February 2020)
• "Trial Over Brutal Killings Sheds Light on MS-13 and Power of US Street Gangs" by Edward Helmore (The Guardian, March 2022)
• "From Selfies to Progress in El Salvador" by Kendrick Foster (Harvard Political Review, December 2019)
• "Violence, Culture of Impunity Still Plague El Salvador" by Linda Cooper & James Hodge (National Catholic Reporter, May 2015)
• "Our Bottomless Well" by Óscar Martínez (The Nation, March 2016)
• "Killers on a Shoestring: Inside the Gangs of El Salvador" by Óscar Martínez, Efren Lemus, Carlos Martínez and Deborah Sontag (The New York Times, November 2016)

Migration at the Mexican-American Border

• "The Mexican Standoff: Trump and the Art of the Workaround" by Shannon K. O'Neil (Foreign Affairs, September/October 2017)
• "The Other Border Wall" by David Agren (Maclean's, January 2016)
• "Border Patrol" by Jordan Eddy (Santa Fe Reporter, February 2017)
• "Questions Mount Over Deadly Chases on Border" by Eileen Sullivan (The New York Times, January 2022)
• "The Other Border" by Alex Altman (TIME, June 2015)
• "Powered by Artificial Intelligence, 'Autonomous' Border Towers test Democrats' Support for Surveillance Technology" by Nick Miroff (The Washington Post, March 2022)
• "Escape from Iran" by Stephen Maher (Maclean's, September 2021)
• "The Great Escape" by Robert Winder (New Statesman, June 2016)
• "Storefront Coyotes" by Anne Kim (Washington Monthly, July 2013)
• "The ICE Man" by Pam Daniel (Sarasota Magazine, July 2017)

To Be Undocumented

• "The Trump-Loving Town And Its Favorite Undocumented Immigrant" by Alex Kotlowitz (New York Magazine, April 2019)
• "Restrictionism's Last Stand" by Pedro Gonzalez (The American Conservative, July 2021)
• "The Problem with Undocumented Grandparents" by Jeffrey M. Allen (Voice of Experience, May 2021)
• "Undocumented Life Is a Hurdle as Immigrants Seek a Reprieve" by Kirk Semple (The New York Times, October 2012)
• "Unaccompanied Minors Cross New Hurdle: Graduation" by Denisa R. Superville (Education Week, June 2016)
• "Migrant Children, Voiceless in Court" by the Editorial Board (The New York Times, March 2016) 
• "An Illegal Immigrant" by John Tytell (Commonweal, June 2017)
• "The Heartbreaking, Lifesaving Practice of Welcoming 'Unaccompanied' Child Migrants" by Shikha Dalmia (Reason, June 2019)
• "Unaccompanied Minors Neglected As Calais Camp Is Demolished" by David Stewart (America, November 2016)
• Poems on Immigration at the Poetry Foundation

Immigrant Detention

• "Family Values" by Margaret Talbot (The New Yorker, July 2018)
• "Australia's Disgrace" by Ollie Milman (New Internationalist, October 2012)
• "Why Family Separation Is So Central to Trump's Immigration Vision" by Maddalena Marinari (The Washington Post, November 2019)
• "Find Your Inner Poet" by Will Bremen (Cobblestone, February 2016)
• "Our Next Deporter-in-Chief?" by Maurizio Guerrero (In These Times, February 2021)
• "What I Saw at an Immigrant Detention Center" by Martin Garbus (The Nation, April 2019)
• "When God Opens a Coliseum" by Bekah McNeel (Christianity Today, October 2021)

Undocumented Immigrants and the Economy

• "Why Unions Are Fighting for Undocumented Workers" by Brett Johnson (njbiz, September 2016)
• "The 4 A.M. Army" by Michael Grabell (TIME Magazine, July 2013)
• "Storm Chasers" by Sarah Stillman (The New Yorker, November 2021)
• "Grand America Agrees to $1.95M Penalty in Illegal Worker Case" (Enterprise/Salt Lake City, September 2014)
• "How an Undocumented Immigrant Went from Selling Funnel Cakes in Texas to Derivatives at Goldman Sachs" by Max Abelson & Isabella Cota (Bloomberg Businessweek, March 2015)
• "America Without Migrants" by D.W. Gibson (The Nation, October 2016)
• "What Undocumented Workers Really Want" by Fawn Johnson (The National Journal, March 2013)

Migrant Mental Health and Wellness

• "Helping Those Who Come Here Alone" by Alejandra Acuña & Pia Valenzuela Escudero (Phi Delta Kappan, December 2015)
• "Shock Corridor" by Ken Silverstein (The New Republic, September 2019)
• "Fostering Immigrant Communities of Healing" by Lindsey Phillips (Counseling Today, February 2020)
• "Health Toll of Immigration Policies Begins to Emerge" by Sara Reardon (Nature, April 2017)
• "Too Sick to Go Home -- Too Poor to Get Better" by Krista Langlois (Utne Reader, September 2017)
• "For Immigrant Women, Health Care Remains Out of Reach" by Candace Gibson (Women's Heath Activist, November 2013)
• "Inside an Outbreak at an ICE Jail" by Clarissa Donnelly-Deroven (In These Times, January 2021)
• "Immigrants and the Jinn" by Erik Raschke (America, January 2017)
• "Mental Testing of Ellis Island Immigrants: A Distant Mirror" by Scott P. Merydith, Suzanne Bamonto, Elise Stalker, & Jillian Larkin (Communique, May 2017)