The Death of Josseline

Immigration Stories from the Arizona Borderlands

Margaret Regan

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Beacon Press
01 September 2018

Memoirs; Migration, immigration & emigration

Dispatches from Arizona-the front line of a massive human migration-including the voices of migrants, Border Patrol, ranchers, activists, and others

For the last decade, Margaret Regan has reported on the escalating chaos along the Arizona-Mexico border, ground zero for immigration since 2000. Undocumented migrants cross into Arizona in overwhelming numbers, a state whose anti-immigrant laws are the most stringent in the nation. And Arizona has the highest number of migrant deaths. Fourteen-year-old Josseline, a young girl from El Salvador who was left to die alone on the migrant trail, was just one of thousands to perish in its deserts and mountains.

With a sweeping perspective and vivid on-the-ground reportage, Regan tells the stories of the people caught up in this international tragedy. Traveling back and forth across the border, she visits migrants stranded in Mexican shelters and rides shotgun with Border Patrol agents in Arizona, hiking with them for hours in the scorching desert; she camps out in the thorny wilderness with No More Deaths activists and meets with angry ranchers and vigilantes. Using Arizona as a microcosm, Regan explores a host of urgent issues- the border militarization that threatens the rights of U.S. citizens, the environmental damage wrought by the border wall, the desperation that compels migrants to come north, and the human tragedy of the unidentified dead in Arizona's morgues.

By: Margaret Regan
Imprint: Beacon Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 215mm, Width: 139mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 306g
ISBN: 9780807001301
ISBN 10: 0807001309
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 01 September 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Prologue: The Death of Josseline Introduction (Revised for the paperback edition) 1 Children of the Water 2 Strangers in Their Own Land 2 3 Crossroads al Norte 4 Desert Rescue 5 Auora Morning 6 Ambos Nogales 7 Bones in the Rain 8 The Science of Death 9 The Last House before the Border 10 The Case of the Panda Express Eleven Epilogue The Birth of Jesús Afterword

Margaret Regan writes for the Tucson Weekly and has won a dozen journalism awards for border reporting, including two national prizes. She lives in Tucson.

Reviews for The Death of Josseline: Immigration Stories from the Arizona Borderlands

“A keen-eyed perspective of how questionable public policy has resulted in far too much preventable loss of life, The Death of Josseline is highly recommended.” — Midwest Book Review   “This should be required reading for everyone. . . .  It gave me inspiration.” —Sandra Cisneros, author of The House on Mango Street   “The many admirers of Enrique’s Journey will find much to admire, and fear, in this powerful report.” —Luis Alberto Urrea, author of The Devil’s Highway: A True Story   “A humane, sensitive, and informative perspective on a current and controversial topic . . . We all must pay attention.” —Ana Castillo, author of The Guardians In  The Death of Josseline, Margaret Regan stands midpoint between immigration's push and pull . . . her clear and sympathetic eyes watching the south on its treacherous slog north.