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Todd Miller Research Fellow

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Todd Miller writes a weekly post for The Border Chronicle. He has researched and written about border issues for more than 15 years, the last eight as an independent journalist and writer. He resides in Tucson, Arizona, but also has spent many years living and working in Oaxaca, Mexico. His work has appeared in the New York Times, TomDispatch, The Nation, San Francisco Chronicle, In These Times, Guernica, and Al Jazeera English, among other places.

Todd Miller

Todd has authored four books: Build Bridges, Not Walls: A Journey to a World Without Borders (City Lights, 2021),  Empire of Borders: The Expansion of the U.S. Border Around the World (Verso, 2019),  Storming the Wall: Climate Change, Migration, and Homeland Security (City Lights, 2017), and Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security (City Lights, 2014).

Finally, he has authored or co-authored three reports with the Transnational Institute: More Than a Wall: Corporate Profiteering and the Militarization of U.S. borders (2019), Biden's Border: The Industry, the Democrats, and the 2020 Elections(2021), and Global Climate Wall: How the World's Wealthiest Nations Prioritise Borders over Climate Action (2021).

Areas of expertise: 

Borders: their militarisation, industry, externalisation, and how they intersect with climate displacement. (emphasis on U.S. borders).

Media experience: 

Plenty of media experience particularly in radio, podcast, and print formats, but also a little television.  

Honours/Awards:

Izzy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Independent Media in 2017 (for my book Storming the Wall), Several awards from the Arizona Press Club.

More information see: toddmillerwriter.com.  

Latest work

  • Defund the Global Climate Wall

    • Climate Security
    • Border Wars

    To create a safer, more sustainable world, the United States needs to divert border money toward climate action.

    Article by
    Todd Miller

  • Muro Contra el Clima Cómo los países más ricos del mundo priorizan las fronteras y no la acción climática

    • Guerras de frontera
    • Crisis Climática
    • Seguridad climática

    Los países más ricos del mundo eligieron cómo van a encarar la acción climática mundial: mediante la militarización de sus fronteras. Como demuestra claramente este informe, estos países (que cargan con la mayor responsabilidad histórica de la crisis climática) gastan más en armar sus fronteras para mantener fuera a los migrantes que para lidiar con las crisis que obligan a las personas a abandonar sus hogares en primera instancia.

    Report by
    • Todd Miller
    • Nick Buxton
    • Mark Akkerman

  • Global Climate Wall How the world’s wealthiest nations prioritise borders over climate action

    • Border Wars
    • Climate Crisis
    • Climate Security

    This report finds that the world’s biggest emitters of green house gases are spending, on average, 2.3 times as much on arming their borders as they are on climate finance. This figure is as high as 15 times as much for the worst offenders. This “Global Climate Wall” aims to seal off powerful countries from migrants, rather than addressing the causes of displacement. Order Print Copy

    Report by
    • Todd Miller
    • Nick Buxton
    • Mark Akkerman
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