I had the great pleasure of meeting and attending a workshop of Deepa Fernandes at last summer’s Allied Media Conference. Her workshop, like much of her work, focused on immigration policy and immigrant rights in the US. I have yet to meet someone as informed on immigration policy and as dedicated to immigrant rights as Deepa Fernandes. In addition to going through the immigration bureaucracy herself, Deepa emigrated to the US from Australia, she has actively engaged in her investigative reporting. Like much of the new media movement, Deepa has shrugged off the false notion of objective reporting and has been involved in the movement for humyn rights and has done much to bring light to struggles for humyn rights around the world.

As if being an award-winning documentary producer and host of Wake Up Call weren’t enough, Fernades has just published a book at Seven Stories Press called Targeted: National Security and the Business of Immigration. The book seems to be the extended version of the workshop i attended and i can guarantee you, if its anything near as informative as the workshop (and i’m sure its multiple times as informative), this is a book that anyone concerned about humyn rights should read. Fernandes is wonderful at highlighting the connections between humyn rights, immigration policy, homeland security, and corporate profiteering.