“Flagged for deportation, I was hurtled into my own little nightmare, an absurdist take on all the immigration tragedies raging across the world.”

Rihan Yeh
Rihan Yeh is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of California, San Diego. She studies the effects of the Mexico–US border on public life in Tijuana; her first book is titled Passing: Two Publics in a Mexican Border City (University of Chicago Press, 2018).