1 Dvera I. Saxton, “Strawberry Fields as Extreme Environments: The Ecobiopolitics of Farmworker Health,” Medical Anthropology 34, no. 2 (2015): 166–83.
2 Statement from Immigration and Customs Enforcement public affairs officer on the massive hunger strike at Hutto Detention Center, trans. Rankin Kenrya and Yirssi Bergman, “Why 27 Women in Hutto Immigration Detention Center Won’t Eat,” ColorLines, October 29, 2015.
3 Questions based on those asked by Homeland Security border patrol agents at the border patrol station in McAllen, Texas, when a migrant is first detained and the agent (usually without a translator) takes a “sworn statement” to determine if the person entering the country can be immediately deported or not. From the author’s work with the Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project (ASAP) at the Urban Center for Justice.
4 Lisa Lowe, Immigrant Acts (Durham: Duke University Press), 1996.
5 Letter from Lilian Oliva Bardales, held in Karnes Detention Center, June 9, 2015.
6 Declarations of detainees from a human rights report published by the American Immigration Council, “Hieleras (Iceboxes) in the Rio Grande Valley Sector,” December 2015.
7 “Why 27 Women in Hutto Immigration Detention Center Won’t Eat,” ColorLines, October 29, 2015.
8 Unidad Latina en Acción (ULA). “The Connecticut Wage Theft Crisis: Stories and Solutions,” March 2015.