Dos Vatos Palabras

by Dr. Joseph Nevins

Associate Professor of Geography

Vassar College 

Beyond the Border is a powerful and instructive look at the impact migration has had on one family that straddles the territorial boundary that unites and divides Mexico and the United States. In focusing on one of four brothers who have migrated from their home town in Michoacan, Mexico to rural Kentucky and telling the story of the larger family, the film offers a complex portrait of the human ties that bind seemingly distant locations across the U.S.-Mexico divide.

Both inspiring and sobering, this documentary poignantly illustrates how migration simultaneously maintains and tears apart a family, while demonstrating the rootedness of Mexican migrants in the U.S. socio-economic fabric. I strongly recommend this highly unique documentary for classroom use, and for high school and university library collections.

-Dr. 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 Dying To Live: A Story of U.S. Immigration in an Age of Global Apartheid (forthcoming in 2008 from City Lights Book). 

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