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A Conversation with Alyssa Quintanilla and Benjamin Williams, guest editors of 'Processing Forms: Political Aesthetics and the Materiality of the US-Mexico Border,' a Special Issue of "Afterimage"
Jul 30 2026
The guest editors of Afterimage's new special issue explore how artists and activists are reimagining the U.S.–Mexico border through creative forms of resistance.
Electric Eyes: Erica Toffoli on Border Surveillance and Visual History
Jul 14 2026
Toffoli discusses the images & technologies that helped construct the Border Patrol's public image, the historical roots of today's surveillance culture along the U.S.–Mexico border, & why visual history remains essential for understanding contemporary debates over immigration & state power.
"California History" Announces the 2024 Winner of the Richard J. Orsi Prize
Aug 06 2025
Congratulations to Erica Toffoli whose article “Electric Eyes: Surveillance, Sovereignty, and the Limits of the Border Patrol’s Technocratic Vision on the U.S.-Mexico Line” has won this year's Orsi Prize, which recognizes the best research essay published in the journal "California History" each year.
The Chilling Truth Behind Silicon Valley’s Surveillance of Immigrants
Jun 05 2024
By Melissa Villa-Nicholas, author of Data Borders: How Silicon Valley Is Building an Industry around ImmigrantsAround 2018, I started to read reports about increasing information technology surveillance at the U.S.-Mexico border and around the U.S. to assist in immigration detention and deportat
Bordering in South Asia
Oct 24 2023
Sahana Ghosh, author of "A Thousand Tiny Cuts" on borders and bordering South Asia.
Surveillance and Resistance in the Borderlands
Feb 03 2022
By Ana Muñiz, author of Borderland Circuitry: Immigration Surveillance in the United States and BeyondThe passage below is an adapted excerpt from Borderland Circuitry.I’ve loved the land for as long as I can remember. I grew up in the Sonoran Desert of Southern Arizona, a stunning place kni