Event Details

Todd Miller will speak about his new book Empire of Borders: The Expansion of the U.S. Border Around the World. Todd is a faculty member on the Border Studies Program (based in Tucson, Arizona) where students explore topics such as transnational migration, neoliberal globalization, the militarization of policing, and struggles for environmental justice, ethnic studies, and indigenous rights along the U.S.-Mexican border.
Food will be provided

Todd Miller has researched and written about border issues for more than 15 years, the last eight as an independent journalist and writer. He resides in Tucson, Arizona, but also has spent many years living and working in Oaxaca, Mexico. His work has appeared in the New York Times, TomDispatch, the Nation, San Francisco Chronicle, In These Times, Guernica, and Al Jazeera English, among other places. Miller has authored three books: The forthcoming Empire of Borders: The Expansion of the U.S. Border Around the World (Verso, 2019), Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security (City Lights, 2017), and Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security (City Lights, 2014). He's a contributing editor on border and immigration issues for NACLA Report on the Americas and its column "Border Wars."