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Best Nonfiction of 2023 - Kirkus “One of the most thoughtful meditations on our nation’s immigration policy in recent memory."  —The Boston GlobeA chronicle of translation, storytelling, and borders as understood through the United States' “immigration crisis”In this powerful and deeply ... Read More about Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration

A 2023 Indie Next List PickA Summer/Fall 2023 Adult Indies Introduce PickA 2023 Roxanne Gay Audacious Book Club PickWinner of the 2022 Whiting Creative Nonfiction GrantIn this powerful and deeply felt memoir of translation, storytelling, and borders, Alejandra Oliva, a Mexican American translator an... Read More about Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration

A clear and concise A to Z of keywords that echo our current human rights crisis As millions are forced to leave their nations of origin due to political, economic, and environmental peril, rising racism and xenophobia has led to increasingly harsh policies. A mass-mediated political circus obscur... Read More about A is for Asylum Seeker: Words for People on the Move / A de Asilo: Palabras Para Personas En Movimiento

A clear and concise A-to-Z of keywords that echo our current human rights crisis As millions are forced to leave their nations of origin as a result of political, economic, and environmental peril, rising racism and xenophobia have led to increasingly harsh policies. A mass-mediated political circ... Read More about A is for Asylum Seeker: Words for People on the Move / A de Asilo: Palabras Para Personas En Movimiento

El presente libro tiene como objetivo, realizar un an lisis reflexivo de las consecuencias educativas en las escuelas rurales de M xico durante el periodo Covid-19; bajo la perspectiva del principio filos fico de la equidad. Particularmente, de una escuela ubicada en la Pen nsula de Yucat n, Estado ... Read More about Reflexión respecto a la equidad educativa en México, durante el Covid

In this powerful and deeply felt polemic memoir, Alejandra Oliva, a Mexican-American translator and immigrant justice activist, offers a chronological document of her experience interpreting at the US-Mexico border, and of the people she has encountered along the way. Tracing her family's long and f... Read More about Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration