Overview

This collection brings together the experiences and voices of anthropologists whose engaged work with im/migrant communities pushes the boundaries of ethnography toward a feminist, care-based, decolonial mode of ethnographic engagement called “accompaniment.” Accompaniment as anthropological research and praxis troubles the boundaries of researcher-participant, scholar-activist, and academic-community to explicitly address issues of power, inequality, and the broader social purpose of the work. More than two dozen contributors show how accompaniment is not merely a mode of knowledge production but an ethical commitment that calls researchers to action in solidarity with those whose lives we seek to understand. The volume stands as a collective conversation about possibilities for caring and decolonial forms of ethnographic engagement with im/migrant communities. This volume is ideal for scholars, students, immigrant activists, instructors, and those interested in social justice work. Contributors Carolina Alonso Bejarano Anna Aziza Grewe Alaska Burdette Whitney L. Duncan Carlos Escalante Villagran Christina M. Getrich Tobin Hansen Lauren Heidbrink Dan Heiman Josiah Heyman Sarah Horton Nolan Kline Alana M. W. LeBrÓn Lupe LÓpez William D. Lopez Aida LÓpez Huinil Mirian A. Mijangos GarcÍa Nicole L. Novak Mariela NuÑez-Janes Ana Ortez-Rivera Juan Edwin Pacay Mendoza Salvador Brandon Pacay Mendoza MarÍa Engracia Robles Robles Delmis Umanzor Erika Vargas Reyes Kristin E. Yarris      

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“This cutting-edge volume brings together some of the most well-respected migration scholars who, through their critical and reflexive ethnographic engagements and writing, demonstrate the possibilities of anthropological practice as truly collaborative and politically engaged. The volume’s unifying theme of accompaniment take us to multiple sites and spaces where we may reimagine our roles as scholar-activists and contribute to meaningful and material change and justice for the communities we work alongside.”—Wendy Vogt, author of Lives in Transit: Violence and Intimacy on the Migrant Journey

"""This cutting-edge volume brings together some of the most well-respected migration scholars who, through their critical and reflexive ethnographic engagements and writing, demonstrate the possibilities of anthropological practice as truly collaborative and politically engaged. The volume's unifying theme of accompaniment take us to multiple sites and spaces where we may reimagine our roles as scholar-activists and contribute to meaningful and material change and justice for the communities we work alongside.""--Wendy Vogt, author of Lives in Transit: Violence and Intimacy on the Migrant Journey"

Author Information

Kristin E. Yarris is an associate professor in the Departments of Global Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Oregon. Her research, teaching, and community work focus on transnational migration, immigrant rights and inclusion, and health equity. Whitney L. Duncan is a professor of anthropology at the University of Northern Colorado and a medical and psychological anthropologist whose research centers on immigration and the sociopolitical, cultural, and global aspects of health and emotion.

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