Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail

Abstract

The U.S.-Mexican border is one of most permeable boundaries in world, breached daily by Mexicans in search of work. Thousands die crossing line and those who reach the other side are branded illegals, undocumented and unprotected. Crossing Over puts a human face on phenomenon, following exodus of Chavez clan, an extended Mexican family who lost three sons in a tragic border accident. Martinez follows migrants' progress from their small southern Mexican town of Cheran to California, Wisconsin, and Missouri where far from joining melting pot, Martinez argues, seven million migrants in U.S. are creating a new culture that will alter both Mexico and United States as two countries come increasingly to resemble each other.

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