- 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 are helpful to understand migration because migration is about othering and the response of some folks who are othered is to become "more loyal than the king" to the empire.