Getting Beyond the Border: How Immigration Became a Political Crisis

Getting Beyond the Border: How Immigration Became a Political Crisis

Jonathan Blitzer, a staff writer at The New Yorker and author of “Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here,” will speak at the University of Notre Dame on Wednesday, Feb. 26, in an event hosted by the Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights.

Drawing on his work as a journalist, Blitzer will discuss how immigration became a political crisis.

“Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis” is an epic, heartbreaking, and deeply reported book about the disastrous humanitarian crisis at the US-Mexico border. Blitzer tells this history through the lives of the migrants forced to risk everything and the policymakers who determine their fate. The book has received widespread praise and was named one of the best books of 2024 by the New York Times and several other publications.

The event is free and open to the public. A reception with hors d’oeuvres, book sales, and a book signing will follow the lecture.

Blitzer’s lecture ties in with the Klau Institute’s Migration Initiative, which launched last year through collaboration with other experts from across the Keough School of Global Affairs and the University as a whole.

This event is co-sponsored by the Institute for Latino Studies, the Institute for Social Concerns, the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, and the Gallivan Program in Journalism, Ethics, and Democracy.

Host or Publisher Klau Institute for Civil and Human Rights