Eileen Truax

Eileen Truax, born in Mexico City in 1970. Mexican journalist who lived in the United States for nearly two decades, where she specialised in reporting on migration and politics. She has covered four presidential elections and written for outlets including The Washington Post, Vice, El Universal (Mexico) and 5W. 

She has published three works of reportage, in both English and Spanish editions: Dreamers: An Immigrant Generation's Fight for Their American Dream (Océano, 2013), How Does It Feel to Be Unwanted?: Stories of Resistance and Resilience from Mexicans Living in the United States (Planeta México, 2017) and We Built the Wall. How the US Keeps Out Asylum Seekers from Mexico, Central America and Beyond (HarperCollins, 2019). The latter denounces how the US government violates the right to asylum under international law through bureaucratic mechanisms that function as a de facto barrier to the legal entry of refugees. Her writings have also appeared in eight collective volumes, and she is the editor of Una Lucha compartida (A Shared Struggle) (Editorial Resistencia, 2022), a biographical account of feminist activist Lucha Castro. She is content director of the International Congress on Migration Journalism, was a Knight-Wallace Fellow in Journalism at the University of Michigan (2020) and is a lifetime member of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists in the United States. 

She currently lives in Barcelona, where she is pursuing a doctorate in Media, Communication and Culture at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), and teaches on the Master’s in Literary Journalism and the Study Abroad Programme (UAB).

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