Authors: Alix Dick and Antero Garcia
Publication Date: June 17, 2025
Genre: Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, Social Justice, Immigration Studies

The Cost of Being Undocumented: One Woman’s Reckoning with America’s Inhumane Math is a powerful memoir and social science collaboration that illuminates the hidden, often overlooked costs of living undocumented in the United States. Co-authored by Alix Dick, an undocumented immigrant and storyteller, and Antero Garcia, a Stanford education scholar, the book combines personal narrative with participatory research to reveal the financial, psychological, medical, and social burdens borne by undocumented individuals.