The Tegeder-Berg Historical Society book group will explore the complex issue of immigration this fall. Interested alums, students, and faculty will read an engaging new work that examines the networks that move migrants from Central America through Mexico to the US border. Professor Brian Larkin, who teaches Latin American history, will lead our book discussion.

Jason de Leon, MacArthur Foundation Fellow (MacArthur Genius Award recipient) and professor of Anthropology at UCLA, has written extensively about immigration. His new book, Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling, paints a vivid, intimate portrait the smugglers who guide immigrants along fraught and violent paths to the US. Through years of extensive research and participant observation, de Leon provides a nuanced view of human smuggling and, in the process, reveals the causes and contours of Central American and Mexican migration.

For praise and reviews of Soldier and Kings, see: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0593298586?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_dp_GTEAJHRQHMBKTKXBWYHJ.