Lexington Books
Pages: 194
Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-66696-208-6 • Hardback • February 2025 • $105.00 • (£81.00)
978-1-66696-209-3 • eBook • February 2025 • $45.00 • (£35.00) (coming soon)
Corrie Boudreaux is lecturer in the Department of Communication at the University of Texas at El Paso and an award-winning photojournalist who covers the El Paso-Ciudad Juárez border.
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
List of Acronyms
Introduction
Chapter 1: Venezuela in Crisis
Chapter 2: “Eyes That Have Cried:” Venezuelans at the Juárez-El Paso Border
Chapter 3: Hope Keeps Us Here: Motivations and Goals for Camp-building
Chapter 4: Community and Conflict: The Life and Death of Little Venezuela
Chapter 5: After the Camp: Living and Dying in Juárez
Conclusion
Appendix: List of Interviews
Bibliography
About the Author
"The image of asylum-seekers, many of them Venezuelan, appeared across U.S. media during 2022 and 2023 with visceral political impact. But what do we know of them as people? What do we know of how they arrived, how they survived trapped against the border wall, and what became of them? Boudreaux’s eloquent book, filled with vivid photographs, answers these questions, turning superficial imagery into humane knowledge of border reality."
— Josiah Heyman, University of Texas at El Paso