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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.
New from Pacific Historical Review: Black Schools in the West, Stopover Migration, and Labor Relations in Vietnam
May 06 2026
Preview the new Spring 2026 issue of "Pacific Historical Review."
"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.
Native peoples and the U.S.-Mexico Border: Q&A with Jennifer Bess
May 21 2025
Borders mark off the place where one nation ends and another begins. But what happens when you belong to a people that has lived on both sides of the border, since long before the border even existed?
One Hundred Years of Border Control
Nov 01 2024
A special issue of California History commemorates the centennial of the Border Patrol and the Immigration Act of 1924, and offers important historical perspective on our current political moment.
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
Superfluous Lives: Contemporary Art at the Mexico-U.S. Border
Jun 08 2023
by Adriana Miramontes Olivas, author of "Los neoliberarchivos de Teresa Margolles: Contemporary Art at the Mexico-US Border," Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture (2023) Vol. 5, Issue 2Image credits: Teresa Margolles, Irrigación (Irrigation), 2010, single-channel video production (Blue-ray),
Border Activist and Critic Michael Dear’s Top 15 Border Films
Feb 08 2023
By Michael Dear, author of Border Witness: Reimagining the US-Mexico Borderlands through FilmOver the past two decades, there has been an explosion of film releases about the US-Mexico borderlands. Not surprisingly, many have addressed issues of drug trafficking and cartels as well as immigr
#LASA2022: Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos Explores the Transnational Management of Colorado River Water Resources
May 05 2022
Mexican Studies/ Estudios Mexicanos’s current issue includes the article “Valle Imperial/valle de Mexicali, 1910–28: su impacto en la cuenca del río Colorado y la disputa por los usos sociales” by Marco Antonio Samaniego López, which examines the controversial negotiations between Mexico and the Uni