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"Can I Trust You?" Observing Human Intervention At The Border, Julia Grace Marmor
"Can I Trust You?" Observing Human Intervention At The Border, Julia Grace Marmor
Senior Projects Spring 2023
Current border policies and interventions operate from a stance of efficiency over the value of human life and dignity. This project presents ethnographic data of a trip to work along the US-Mexico border in a humanitarian organization as means of identifying moments in everyday interactions and policies that highlight larger, structural values of authorities in receiving migrants to the United States. Through analysis of observations in this landscape, the significance of humanity and small-scale disruptions employed by nonprofit groups in the area serve to open up moments that are often overlooked in the study of border politics and humanitarian work.