Book
Voices of the border : testimonios of migration, deportation, and asylum
Publication Information
Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, [2021]
Physical Description
xxii, 233 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Summary
"Migrants, refugees and deportees live through harrowing situations, yet not much is widely known about their experiences. Politicians and commentators mischaracterize and demonize, herald border crises, and speculate about who people are and how they live. This book reflects a desire to communicate their perspectives and experiences. Each one of them goes through the emotional and psychological intensity of alternating motion and stillness. They live through this cycle, and then relive it again and again through memory. Yet these memories are rarely shared. This book emerged as a collaboration between people affiliated-via professional, vocational, religious, and humanitarian commitments, all deeply personal-with the Kino Border Initiative (KBI), a Jesuit-run migration advocacy organization based in Nogales, Arizona and Nogales, Sonora. KBI runs several programs in Mexico and the United States, especially in Nogales, Sonora, by providing services, such as meals, health care, and political and economic aid, to migrants, deportees, and refugees. This book is envisioned as a resource for those who seek to understand the stories of migrants , as well as the cycles of migration, deportation, and political asylum; the public policies that act upon them; and the consequences of these dynamics. This book is not intended to be a scholarly examination of the migrant crisis. Rather, it is an important collection of the first-hand experience of migrants and a tribute to the work of the staff and volunteers at the Kino Border Initiative"--
Contents
- Testimonios from Nogales / Tobin Hansen
- Wealth Inequality and Economic Migration / Tobin Hansen
- Violence and Maras / Jorge A. Andrade Galindo
- Gendered Violence / Cecilia Guadalupe Espinoza Martínez
- Separated from Family / María Engracia Robles Robles
- Clandestine Border Crossings / David Hill
- Abuses by Government / Joanna Williams
- Mexico as the New Southern U.S. Border / Marla Conrad and Jorge A. Andrade Galindo
- Deporting Through Crime and Race / Tobin Hansen
- Deported from Home / Tobin Hansen
- Dismantling Access to Asylum / Joanna Williams
- Spiritual Life / Fr. Samuel Lozano de los Santos
- Valuing Voices / Tobin Hansen