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Climate, Violence, and the Routes North

Reporting, scholarship, and memoir that trace how climate disruption, endemic violence, and enforcement policy intertwine to drive Latin American migration and silence the people inside it.

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6 booksApril 17, 2026
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    1. Our Migrant Souls

    Héctor Tobar situates Latinx migration within historical and cultural forces, offering broad context for contemporary...
    Shelf signal: Hispanic & Latino Biography
  2. In the Shadow of Liberty

    2. In the Shadow of Liberty

    Ana Raquel Minian documents immigrant lives and enforcement practices that show how policy produces precarity and...
    Shelf signal: U.S. History
  3. Soldiers and Kings

    3. Soldiers and Kings

    Jason De León combines investigative scholarship and human stories about border violence and smuggling that illuminate...
    Shelf signal: Hispanic & Latino Biography
  4. The Devil's Highway

    4. The Devil's Highway

    Luis Alberto Urrea offers visceral narrative of border crossings and the human cost of enforcement, useful to...
    Shelf signal: Hispanic & Latino Biography
  5. Separated

    5. Separated

    Jacob Soboroff chronicles family separation and enforcement policies that amplify the silencing and trauma highlighted...
    Shelf signal: 21st-Century America
  6. The Undocumented Americans

    6. The Undocumented Americans

    Karla Cornejo Villavicencio provides intimate portraits of undocumented Americans that reveal how migrants moderate or...
    Shelf signal: Hispanic & Latino Biography
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