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Migrant Feelings, Migrant Knowledge
The digital storytelling project Humanizing Deportation invites
migrants to present their own stories in the world's largest and
most diverse archive of its kind. Since 2017, more than 300
community storytellers have created their own audiovisual
testimonial narratives, sharing their personal experiences of
migration and repatriation. With Migrant Feelings, Migrant
Knowledge , the project's coordinator, Robert Irwin, and other
team members introduce the project's innovative participatory
methodology, drawing out key issues regarding the human
consequences of contemporary migration control regimes, as well as
insights from migrants whose world-making endeavors may challenge
what we think we know about migration.
In recent decades, migrants in North America have been treated
with unprecedented harshness. Migrant Feelings, Migrant
Knowledge outlines this recent history, revealing stories both
of grave injustice and of seemingly unsurmountable obstacles
overcome. As Irwin writes, \"The greatest source of expertise on the
human consequences of contemporary migration control are the
migrants who have experienced them,\" and their voices in this
searing collection jump off the page and into our hearts and
minds.
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Mexican voices of the border region
Every day, 40,000 commuters cross the U.S. Mexico border at Tijuana San Diego to go to work. Untold numbers cross illegally. Since NAFTA was signed into law, the border has become a greater obstacle for people moving between countries. Transnational powers have exerted greater control over the flow of goods, services, information, and people. Mexican Voices of the Border Region examines the flow of people, commercial traffic, and the development of relationships across this border. Through first-person narratives, Laura Velasco Ortiz and Oscar F. Contreras show that since NAFTA, Tijuana has become a dynamic and significant place for both nations in terms of jobs and residents. The authors emphasize that the border itself has different meanings whether one crosses it frequently or not at all. The interviews probe into matters of race, class, gender, ethnicity, place, violence, and political economy as well as the individual's sense of agency.
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The border and its bodies : the embodiment of risk along the U.S.-México line
\"This volume offers a critical investigation of the risk and the physical toll of migration along the U.S. southern border\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Grandmothers on Guard
For about a decade, one of the most influential forces in US anti-immigrant politics was the Minuteman Project. The armed volunteers made headlines patrolling the southern border. What drove their ethno-nationalist politics?Jennifer L. Johnson spent hundreds of hours observing and interviewing Minutemen, hoping to answer that question. She reached surprising conclusions. While the public face of border politics is hypermasculine—men in uniforms, fatigues, and suits—older women were central to the Minutemen. Women mobilized support and took part in border missions. These women compel us to look beyond ideological commitments and material benefits in seeking to understand the appeal of right-wing politics. Johnson argues that the women of the Minutemen were motivated in part by the gendered experience of aging in America. In a society that makes old women irrelevant, aging white women found their place through anti-immigrant activism, which wedded native politics to their concern for the safety of their families. Grandmothers on Guard emphasizes another side of nationalism: the yearning for inclusion. The nation the Minutemen imagined was not only a space of exclusion but also one in which these women could belong.
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Divided peoples : policy, activism, and indigenous identities on the U.S.-Mexico border
\"Divided Peoples addresses the impact border policies have on Indigenous lands and peoples who live there, showing how such policies affect the traditional cultural survival of Indigenous peoples along the border and examining international rights tools by Native activists, counter-discourse on the U.S.-Mexico border, and challenges faced by Indigenous border activists when communicating to the broader public\"-- Provided by publisher.
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meXicana Encounters
meXicana Encounters charts the dynamic and contradictory representation of Mexicanas and Chicanas in culture. Rosa Linda Fregoso's deft analysis of the cultural practices and symbolic forms that shape social identities takes her across a wide and varied terrain. Among the subjects she considers are the recent murders and disappearances of women in Ciudad Juárez; transborder feminist texts that deal with private, domestic forms of violence; how films like John Sayles's Lone Star re-center white masculinity; and the significance of la familia to the identity of Chicanas/os and how it can subordinate gender and sexuality to masculinity and heterosexual roles. Fregoso's self-reflexive approach to cultural politics embraces the movement for social justice and offers new insights into the ways that racial and gender differences are inscribed in cultural practices.
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The U.S.-Mexico Transborder Region : Cultural Dynamics and Historical Interactions
\"One of the most complete collections of essays on U.S.-Mexico border studies\"--Provided by publisher.
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Fires on the Border
The history of themaquiladorashas been punctuated by workers' organized resistance to abysmal working and living conditions. Over years of involvement in such movements, Rosemary Hennessy was struck by an elusive but significant feature of these struggles: the extent to which organizing is driven by attachments of affection and antagonism, belief, betrayal, and identification.
What precisely is the \"affective\" dimension of organizing for justice? Are affects and emotions the same? And how can their value be calculated?Fires on the Bordertakes up these questions of labor and community organizing-its \"affect-culture\"-on Mexico's northern border from the early 1970s to the present day. Through these campaigns, Hennessy illuminates the attachments and identifications that motivate people to act on behalf of one another and that bind them to a common cause. The book's unsettling, even jarring, narratives bring together empirical and ethnographic accounts-of specific campaigns, the untold stories of gay and lesbian organizers, love and utopian longing-in concert with materialist theories of affect and the critical good sense of Mexican organizers.
Teasing out the integration of affect-culture in economic relations and cultural processes, Hennessy provides evidence that sexuality and gender as strong affect attractors are incorporated in the harvesting of surplus labor. At the same time, workers' testimonies confirm that the capacities for bonding and affective attachment, far from being entirely at the service of capital, are at the very heart of social movements devoted to sustaining life.
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