Todd Miller is a journalist based in
Tucson, Arizona
, "(at the) base of the black ill
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. He is the author of ''Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security'', ''Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security'', and ''Empire of Borders: The Expansion of the U.S. Border Around the World.''
Biography
For over a decade and a half, Miller has written about
border
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and
immigration
Immigration is the international movement of people to a destination country of which they are not natives or where they do not possess citizenship in order to settle as permanent residents or naturalized citizens. Commuters, tourists, and ...
issues between the
United States
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and
Mexico
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. He is a contributing editor on the
NACLA Report on the Americas
''NACLA Report on the Americas'' is an academic journal produced by the North American Congress on Latin America.
History
The North American Congress on Latin America was founded on November 1966 by leaders of the New Left movement to analyze the ...
’ blog "Border Wars", and his work has also appeared in such places as the ''
New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid d ...
'', ''
The Nation
''The Nation'' is an American liberal biweekly magazine that covers political and cultural news, opinion, and analysis. It was founded on July 6, 1865, as a successor to William Lloyd Garrison's '' The Liberator'', an abolitionist newspaper tha ...
'',
''Guernica'', and ''
Common Dreams
Common Dreams NewsCenter, often referred to simply as Common Dreams, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, U.S.-based news website with a stated goal of serving the progressive community. Common Dreams publishes news stories, editorials, and a newswire of cu ...
''.
Miller lives in
Tucson, Arizona
, "(at the) base of the black ill
, nicknames = "The Old Pueblo", "Optics Valley", "America's biggest small town"
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. Miller has worked for both Borderlinks in Arizona and
Witness for Peace
Witness for Peace (WFP) is a United States-based grassroots organization founded in 1983 that opposed the Reagan administration's support of the Nicaraguan ''Contras'', denouncing widespread atrocities by these counterrevolutionary groups. Witness ...
in
Oaxaca, Mexico, researching and assisting in resolving immigration issues.
His first book, ''Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security'' was published in 2014. His second book ''Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security'' was published in 2017 and covers the interrelated nature of human migration,
climate change
In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system. Climate change in a broader sense also includes previous long-term changes to E ...
, corporate investment in border militarization, and sustainability and
environmental justice
Environmental justice is a social movement to address the unfair exposure of poor and marginalized communities to harms from hazardous waste, resource extraction, and other land uses.Schlosberg, David. (2007) ''Defining Environmental Justic ...
movements. And his third book "Empire of Borders: The Expansion of the U.S. Border Around the World" was published in 2019 and traces the externalization of the U.S. border apparatus abroad. His fourth boo
"Build Bridges, Not Walls: A Journey to a World Without Borders"is a meditation and reflection on his other work that attempts to imagine a new world without border enforcement.
He currently writes fo
The Border Chroniclewith fellow border journalist Melissa del Bosque.
Bibliography
* ''Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security'' (
City Lights Publishers
City Lights is an independent bookstore-publisher combination in San Francisco, California, that specializes in world literature, the arts, and progressive politics. It also houses the nonprofit City Lights Foundation, which publishes selected ti ...
, 2014)
* ''Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security'' (
City Lights Publishers
City Lights is an independent bookstore-publisher combination in San Francisco, California, that specializes in world literature, the arts, and progressive politics. It also houses the nonprofit City Lights Foundation, which publishes selected ti ...
, 2017)
* ''Empire of Borders: The Expansion of the U.S. Border Around the World'' (
Verso Books
Verso Books (formerly New Left Books) is a left-wing publishing house based in London and New York City, founded in 1970 by the staff of ''New Left Review''.
Renaming, new brand and logo
Verso Books was originally known as New Left Books. The ...
, 2019)
* ''Build Bridges, Not Walls'' (
City Lights Publishers
City Lights is an independent bookstore-publisher combination in San Francisco, California, that specializes in world literature, the arts, and progressive politics. It also houses the nonprofit City Lights Foundation, which publishes selected ti ...
, 2021) .
References
External links
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Todd Miller's former blog
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Living people
Journalists from Arizona
Year of birth missing (living people)