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Witnessing Anew: Human Rights Advocacy For Migrants At The U.S. Southern Border In Covid-19 Times, Ellen Maccarone
Witnessing Anew: Human Rights Advocacy For Migrants At The U.S. Southern Border In Covid-19 Times, Ellen Maccarone
Biennial Conference: The Social Practice of Human Rights
In this paper I provide a case study of transnational migrant advocacy done by the Kino Border Initiative during the COVID-19 pandemic. Shortly before the pandemic I spent a week with KBI for an immersion experience part of which focused on the ideas of human rights advocacy and witnessing. “Witness” in this context has both a spiritual/moral dimension and an experiential one that can form a foundation for advocacy. Using accounts of migrants to inform and humanize changed when interpersonal witnessing became impossible during the pandemic. This increased the levels of human rights abuses experienced by migrants and limited the …
How To Build A Museum, Anna L. Davies
How To Build A Museum, Anna L. Davies
Student Symposium
Who are museums for? This question drove our research. Originally motivated by a Travel-Learning Course in Spring 2017 to Manchester, London, and Liverpool, this project seeks to explore the narratives, motivations, and cultural implications for museum exhibits. We focused particularly on art museums. Our primary inspiration was the International Museum of Slavery at the Maritime Museum (Liverpool) and the London, Sugar and Slavery exhibit at the Museum of London Docklands (London). While both historical exhibits, we wanted to examine the symbolism and motivations for creating these exhibits as a form of public history and consciousness in Britain, and apply it …
The Psalms Of Ascent In Times Of Violence, Carlos Colón
The Psalms Of Ascent In Times Of Violence, Carlos Colón
Symposium on Worship Archive
Communities of sojourners continue to suffer around the world. Social unrest, conflict, and war have caused an unprecedented global crisis of migrants and refugees. The plight of Syrian, Iraqi, and other Middle Eastern refugees continues to shock the whole world. Also, thousands of people from Mexico and Central America continue to seek protection in the United States to escape violence and poverty. Carlos Colón will share some of his experiences as a refugee of the civil war in his native El Salvador as well as stories from others who minister to immigrants. In this session, we will strive for a …
Xenophobia, Whiteness, And Citizenship In The United States, Carolyn Dapper
Xenophobia, Whiteness, And Citizenship In The United States, Carolyn Dapper
Seaver College Research And Scholarly Achievement Symposium
In January 2014, the Republican Party released new "principles of immigration" which among many reforms, made space for the possibility of a pathway toward "legal status" for certain groups of undocumented immigrants in the United States. This paper investigates the rhetorical difference between "citizenship" and "legal status" and claims how these principles reflect the GOP's motives to ease their conservative constituents' anxieties surrounding the protection of a traditional, euroamerican definition of American citizenship. This paper analyzes the relationship between whiteness and citizenship, a class which extends beyond ethnicity and involves education, income level, and values associated with WASP America.