Faculty Video: Borders, Migration, and Crisis
On Friday, July 6th, BISR (in partnership with the Consulate General of Mexico in Austin, Jolt Texas, and Union Communications Services, and in solidarity with Jolt’s “Art Caravan for Children to Brownsville” on July 8th) convened a critical and wide-ranging conversation on migration and the present-day immigration crisis: its roots, form, and legal and physical structure; the political, legal, economic, and geographical contexts for migration; and alternatives to the status quo. The event, which featured Nestor Rodriguez (UT Austin, Department of Sociology), Sarah Lopez (UT Austin, School of Architecture, Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice), Eduardo Canales (Executive Director of the South Texas Human Rights Center), Ana Vidina Hernández (UT Austin, Social Work), and BISR’s Ajay Singh Chaudhary, took place at the Black Star Co-op in Austin and was livestreamed to BISR’s Facebook page. A complete video of the conversation is below (it begins at the 25:30 mark):
FOOTNOTES:
Néstor Rodríguez
Slide 1 – Pew Research Center – U.S. border apprehensions of Mexicans fall to historic lows
Slide 2 – DHS – Yearbook of Immigration Statistics
Slide 3 – U.S. Border Patrol Southwest Border Apprehensions by Sector FY2018
Slide 4 – Doctors Without Borders – Neglected Humanitarian Crisis in Central America’s Northern Triangle
Sarah López
Footnotes:
- Chinese Exclusion Act – Wikipedia, The Chinese Exclusion Case, 130 U.S. 581 (1889).
- Detention Watch Network – Houston Processing Center
For more references to Dr. López presentation and work, please visit: States of Incarceration
Eduardo Canales
For more references to Dr. Canales’ presentation and work, please visit: South Texas Human Rights Center
Ajay Singh Chaudhary
Footnotes:
- Neglect & Abuse of Unaccompanied Children by U.S. Customs and Border Protection
- World Meteorological Organization – An exceptionally hot April in eastern and central Pakistan
- The Wage Effects of Immigration and Emigration
- Globalists, The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism, Quinn Slobodian
Ana Vidina Hernández
Slide 1 – Map of where they work
Slide 2 – Diagram of most common forms of violence
Slide 3 – Pyramid of human needs
Slide 4 – Examples of the work they do
Q&A