- Life During Wartime explores the use of counterinsurgency practices by domestic US law enforcement. The border section is valuable although the entire book has useful infomation to understand policing.
- Targeted is a classic which documents the early stages of immigrant enforcement & detention as a profit model.
- Undoing Border Imperialism presents a radical reframing of how we talk about borders, empire, migration, and resistance. While a little dated, really valuable for a radical and people power based analysis.
- Violent Borders has an international view of the violence of borders.
To me, I also think the work of Fanon and [Edward Said](http://www.arabstereot