Part Two: “Witnessing” the Migration Crisis across Borders

“Witnessing” the Migration Crisis across Borders

 

CHAIRS: RE CRUZ, Alicia, NUNEZ-JANES, Mariela, and KOEBER, Ryan (UNT)

 

ROUNDTABLE PARTICIPANTS: SILVA HERNANDEZ, Aida (UABC), MISAEL HERNANDEZ, Oscar (COLEF-Matamoros), AURORA SIERRA, Ligia (UQROO-Chetumal), CHINCHILLA, Norma (UCLB), ZOLTAN, Paul (Immigration Lawyer), ANDERSON, Jill (Otros Dreams en Accion)

 

RE CRUZ, Alicia, NUNEZ-JANES, Mariela, and KOEBER, Ryan (UNT) “Witnessing” the Migration Crisis across Borders. The unprecedented increase of border crossings in the summer of 2014 has been associated to alarming reports of human rights violations. In this context, anthropologists play numerous interconnecting roles working as and with activists, organizers, volunteers, advocates and witnesses. This roundtable is integrated by anthropologists and a variety of professionals from the USA and Mexico who work collaboratively in “witnessing” the dehuminanizing of migrant lives. The discussion will focus on what witnessing means in the context of migration, how witnessing relates to anthropological praxis, and what implications witnessing brings to the practice of anthropology in contexts of social injustice.

 

Session took place in Santa Fe, NM at the 77th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology in March 2017.