"Both a moving testament to the endless hardships and monumental sacrifices that parents will endure for their children and a scathing indictment of the cruelty of American immigration enforcement policies. With sensitivity and a nuanced ethnographic perspective, Oliveira gives us deep insight into the human costs of the growing anti-immigration new world order that seeks to demonize and punish those literally running for their lives. In a global moment where empathy is going extinct, we need the stories in Now We Are Here more than ever."

—Jason De León, University of California, Los Angeles

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