Temporal Spaces, Permanent Scars

Temporal Spaces, Permanent Scars

In VICE’s piece on Libya’s Migrant Jails, it is inevitable to come to the conclusion that race plays a major role in the rehabilitation and…

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American-ness

American-ness

The layers of privilege and racialization in the service industry through “front of the house” and “back of the house” positions illustrate how the privileged…

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A House Divided

A House Divided

In The Positionality of the Latino– America’s Migrant Worker, Dr. Isabella Alexander dissects the various components that go into classifying how positively or negatively certain…

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"If you're not American, then you're Mexican"-Shirong

“If you’re not American, then you’re Mexican”-Shirong

As a member of the Latinx community, I had so many different thoughts on the various points Dr. Alexander highlighted in her publication. There is…

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Behind the Scenes of Migrant Work

Behind the Scenes of Migrant Work

This idea of having a certain image in the work field sounded more than familiar to me, not just because i have observed it while…

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Critique: USA for UNHCR Infographic

Critique: USA for UNHCR Infographic

In early January, 2015, I gave $20 to USA for UNHCR, a decision I made after reading a friend’s Facebook post describing the frigid winter…

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Death by Political Exclusion

Death by Political Exclusion

What struck me as most profound in Larsen’s End of Dreams was not the human-shape figures themselves or the eerie dark-blue shadings of the images,…

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A Call to Humanize

A Call to Humanize

In “Time Out of Joint”, Welch describes how Larsen’s End of Dreams figures, lost in the necroregion of the Mediterranean, reflect the uncertain identities and…

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