Los Otros DREAMers: A Book Of Young People's Deportation and Return To Mexico Seth Freed Wessler - Colorlines.com
go to original June 13, 2013

Armed with the power of their stories, young undocumented immigrants, so-called DREAMers, have made themselves the faces of immigration reform. Their stories, about coming to the US as children and growing up to find an uncertain future, play in Washington as an urgent call to grant undocumented immigrants a path to stay in the US.

Yet as is often the case of shared narratives, some people don’t fit. A new project out of Mexico City aims to tell the stories of “Los Otros Dreamers,” young immigrants who grew up in the US without papers but were either deported or decided that they’d take their chances in Mexico.

The project, a book in progress, is the work of Mexico City-based, American academic Jill Anderson and Mexican photographer Nin Solis. They are travelling around Mexico to meet young people who in recent years have come back to Mexico and are now trying to build lives for themselves. “This is a new collectivity of young people,” Anderson, a PhD in American Studies, told me. “This is the generation of the children of the mass migration from Mexico and they’re now back.”

Anderson and Solis launched a Kickstarter campaign to support the project, which they plan to self-produce and then shop around to publishers. They’re looking for donations to help move the project to completion.

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