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Confronting the Risks of Undocumented Migration on the U.S.-Mexico Border and Beyond

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2022

Christian Zlolniski
Christian Zlolniski*
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University of Texas at Arlington
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Latin American Research Review , Volume 46 , Issue 2 , 2011 , pp. 251 - 258
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References

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6. Suárez-Orozco, “Right Moves?” 46.

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9. Massey, Durand, and Malone, Beyond Smoke and Mirrors, 164.

10. See Pierrete Hondagneu-Sotelo, God's Heart Has No Borders: How Religious Activists Are Working for Immigrant Rights (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008); Jacqueline M. Hagan, “The Church vs. the State: Borders, Migrants, and Human Rights,” in Religion and Social Justice for Immigrants, ed. Pierrete Hondagneu-Sotelo (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2007), 93-103; Cecilia Menjívar, “Serving Christ in the Borderlands: Faith Workers Respond to Border Violence,” in Religion and Social Justice for Immigrants, ed. Pierrete Hondagneu-Sotelo (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2007), 104–121.