A Map of Future Ruins (Nonfiction), Berkeley, CA
A Map of Future Ruins explores the myths of global migration past and present.
“I hope this work leads people to grapple with the violence of borders, connect the dots between nationalism and exclusion, and look directly at the mythologies built around migration.”
Lauren Markham is a California based-writer covering issues of migration, justice and the environment. Her work has appeared in outlets such as the Atlantic, Harper’s, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times Magazine and VQR, where she is a contributing editor. The author of an award-winning book about child migrants entitled The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life, she has also spent over fifteen years working at the intersection of education and immigration.