Voices of the Border (eBook, ePUB)

Testimonios of Migration, Deportation, and Asylum
Redaktion: Hansen, Tobin; Robles Robles, María Engracia

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Powerful personal accounts at the US-Mexico border provide a better understanding of the migrant experience and the consequences of public policy.

Migrants, refugees, and deportees live through harrowing situations, yet their personal stories are often ignored. While politicians and commentators mischaracterize and demonize, herald border crises, and speculate about who people are and how they live, the actual memories of migrants are rarely shared. In the tradition of oral storytelling, Voices of the Border reproduces the stories migrants have told, oering a window onto both individual and shared experiences of crossing the US-Mexico border.

This collection emerged from interviews conducted by the Kino Border Initiative, a Catholic organization that provides humanitarian assistance and advocates for migrants. Based in Nogales, Arizona, and Nogales, Sonora-twin border cities connected by shared histories, geographies, economies, and cultures-the editors and their colleagues documented migrants' testimonios to amplify their voices. These personal narratives of lived experiences, presented in Voices of the Border in the original Spanish alongside English translations, bring us closer to these individuals' strength, love, and courage in the face of hardship and injustice. Short introductions written by migrant advocates, humanitarian workers, religious leaders, and scholars provide additional context at the beginning of each chapter.

These powerful testimonies invite readers to better understand both migrants' experiences and the far-reaching consequences of public policy for their communities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Georgetown University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781647120856
• Artikelnr.: 61917229

Autorenporträt

Tobin Hansen is an instructor of anthropology at the University of Oregon. His research examines migration and deportation, race, masculinities, care, borders, prisons, and gangs. He is a volunteer at the Kino Border Initiative. María Engracia Robles Robles is a Missionary Sister of the Eucharist and education coordinator at the Kino Border Initiative. She is the author of Las últimas serán las primeras: El discipulado de las mujeres en los Evangelios. Sean Carroll, SJ, is the executive director of the Kino Border Initiative.