Publications

The nature of transborder migration and human rights violations against migrants at Mexico’s southern border has received scant attention. The Forgotten Border: Migration & Human Rights at Mexico's Southern Border sheds light on the abuse and exploitation experienced by too many transmigrants as they journey northward, as well as trends in Mexico’s practices regarding immigration and border enforcement policies.

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Love, Loss and Longing: the Impact of U.S. Travel Policy on Cuban-American Families is the publication of a joint LAWGEF and WOLA photo exhibit highlighting the cruel effect of the travel ban on Cuban Americans. The photo exhibit was shown in over 20 cities throughout the United States and the stories of family separation U.S. policy caused touched countless Americans. Drs. Jeanne Lemkau and David Strug have interviewed and chronicled the heart-breaking stories of 20 Cuban Americans who have been unable to see their families. The photographs are the work of two talented Cuban-American photographers, Nestor Hernandez, Jr. and Juan E. Gonzalez Lopez.

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Below the Radar: U.S. Military Programs in Latin America, 1997-2007 reflects LAWGEF's decade-long commitment to monitoring U.S. military programs in our hemisphere, a project that began out of concern that poor access to information made public and congressional oversight of such programs impossible.

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Lea nuestra publicación Por Debajo del Radar (PDF)

Retreat from Reason: U.S.-Cuban Academic Relations and the Bush Administration, written by an international team of U.S. and Cuban scholars, examines the history of and regulations on academic, scientific, and cultural exchange between the United States and Cuba.

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As some 30,000 paramilitaries are demobilized in Colombia, little discussion has taken place about what will happen to the land they stole through violence. Longing for Home: Return of Land to Colombia's Internally Displaced Population calls for steps to return land to its original owners and provide other assistance to Colombia's massive internally displaced population.

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Lea nuestra publicación Añorando el Hogar (PDF)