Migrants stand next to the gate between the Guatemalan and Mexico border, waiting to let in after being checked out by Mexican authorities in Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico, Saturday, Oct. 20, 2018.

Families Separated by Economic Borders

The Brian Lehrer Show | Nov 9, 2018

In the wake of the border crisis, Gabrielle Oliveira, professor in the Lynch School of Education at Boston College, joins us to talk about what her research shows to be the impact of families separated by the border when mothers in Mexico leave to work in the U.S. in her new book, Motherhood across Borders: Immigrants and Their Children in Mexico and New York (NYU Press, 2018).

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