Fast-paced frontline reportage chronicling how climate change is accelerating migration, border build-up, and militarization in the US and beyond.

Contents

1. THE SCAFFOLDING OF THE STATUS QUO: BORDERS IN THE CLIMATE ERA

2. CLIMATE ADAPTATION FOR THE RICH AND POWERFUL: THE 21ST CENTURY U.S.-MEXICO BORDER

3. PHOENIX DYSTOPIA: MASS MIGRATION IN THE HOMELAND

4. THE PHILIPPINES AND THE FUTURE BATTLE AT THE FRONTLINES OF CLIMATE CHANGE

5. PILGRIMAGE AND THE WING OF THE BUTTERFLY

Notes

For the past fifteen years Todd Miller has researched, written about, and worked on immigration and border issues from both sides of the U.S. Mexico divide for organizations such as BorderLinks, Witness for Peace, and NACLA. He did the brunt of this work in Tucson, Arizona and Oaxaca, Mexico, with stints in New York City sprinkled in. Between Tucson and the Buffalo/Niagara Falls region of New York state where he grew up, he has spent the majority of his life close to the U.S. international boundary, south and north. He is the author of Border Patrol Nation (City Lights, 2014), and his writings about the border have appeared in the New York Times, TomDispatch, Mother Jones, The Nation, Al Jazeera English, and Salon among other places.