The Wind Doesn’t Need a Passport: Stories from the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands,
by award-winning journalist Tyche Hendricks, was published by the
University of California Press in June 2010. Hendricks, a veteran
immigration reporter, shows that decisions about how we handle the
border and immigration have wide-ranging implications.

From a distance, the border looks like a dividing line. In fact, it’s
a binational region – more borderlands than borderline. Many people
have lives on both sides: they cross daily for work, school, family,
shopping. Pollution and disease flow back and forth. Extensive trade and
economic activity tie the United States and Mexico together. And
there’s a shared history and culture.

But with a stalled immigration policy and a raging drug war, it’s the
people who live in the borderlands who are bearing the brunt of the
violence and the political friction. The renewed debate about
immigration has focused attention on the U.S.-Mexico border once again.
Hendricks brings a fresh perspective to one of the most debated and
least understood of regions.

Hendricks traveled through the borderlands and gathered remarkable
stories — from emergency rooms and factory floors, farm kitchens and
jail cells. She saw American and Mexican cowboys,
environmentalists, doctors and nuns wrestling with shared binational
problems. A better understanding of the border – and the way the United
States and Mexico are connected there – could help policymakers reach
more lasting solutions that benefit both countries.

Tyche Hendricks is an editor for The California Report on KQED Public
Radio in San Francisco. She spent more than a dozen years at newspapers,
most of them at the San Francisco Chronicle, where she covered the
intersection of culture and politics – reporting on immigration,
demographics and immigrant communities. She teaches at the UC Berkeley
Graduate School of Journalism.

The Wind Doesn't Need a Passport: Stories from the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands (Hardcover)

By Tyche Hendricks, Tyler Hendricks

$50.00

ISBN-13: 9780520252509
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Published: University of California Press, 6/2010

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