Hanging on to hope in a Mexican migrant shelter: the empowering potential of Albergue Tochán

Wilson-Forsberg, Stacey; Parra, Carlos

doi:10.1080/08263663.2022.1996703

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“…It is also important to emphasize that the people they met along the way had hope despite such situations of uncertainty. Migrants regularly exercise agency and resistance in spite of a broader discourse that constructs them as passive and broken victims (Wilson-Forsberg and Parra, 2022). Some of the students remarked that they were impressed by the sheer determination of their new friends to find work, achieve refugee status in Mexico, or to re-unite with family in the north.…”

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“…They then attempt to make the 2655 km journey to the Mexico-U.S. border on foot and on the tops of freight trains, stopping at migrant shelters for respite along the way (Basok and Rojas Wiesner, 2018;Candiz and Bélanger, 2018). Although Mexican authorities frame migration policies as protecting migrants by keeping them off of freight trains not designed for passengers and fighting criminal groups that violate migrant rights, in practice the policies have used U.S. assistance to advance migration control and management in the region (Marchand, 2017;Olayo-Mendez, 2018;Rojas Wiesner and Basok, 2020;Wilson-Forsberg and Parra, 2022). With migration controls becoming increasingly more strict and harsh over the past few years, people are attempting to move through longer, more dangerous routes increasing their vulnerability to exploitation and violence (Brigden, 2018;Canales Cerón and Rojas Wiesner, 2018).…”

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Witnesses to inhumanity on shifting terrain: Embracing an ethic of discomfort for optimal learning in an international field course

Wilson-Forsberg

Monaghan

Corrales

2022

Education, Citizenship and Social

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This paper examines the written reflections of 30 Canadian undergraduate students who participated in an international field course focusing on migration and human rights in Mexico. It endeavors to understand how the students reconciled their thoughts and feelings about trauma and oppression in an intercultural setting. Borrowing Foucault’s ‘ethic of discomfort’, which emphasizes the proactive and transformative potential of discomfort in education, the paper extends existing scholarship in teaching and learning around study abroad and social justice by focusing on ethically complex situations in the field. The findings reveal that while preparation for unprecedented and unforeseeable scenarios during an international field course was challenging for faculty, exposing students to the realities of migration ultimately facilitated learning.

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Witnesses to inhumanity on shifting terrain: Embracing an ethic of discomfort for optimal learning in an international field course

Wilson-Forsberg

Monaghan

Corrales

2022

Education, Citizenship and Social

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The Venezuelan Humanitarian Crisis, Out-Migration, and Household Change Among Venezuelans in Venezuela and Abroad

Weitzman,

Huss

2024

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International migration is increasingly characterized by the need to evade threats to survival. Nevertheless, demographic understandings of how families—rather than individuals alone—decide to migrate or separate in response to threats remain limited. Focusing on the recent humanitarian crisis in Venezuela, we analyze 2012–2016 data on Venezuelans in Venezuela and 2018–2020 data on UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees)-registered Venezuelans in nine receiving countries to illuminate the evolution of threats Venezuelans sought to evade, how threat evasion transformed households away from previous norms, the selection of migrants into different receiving countries and household structures, and demographic disparities in migrants’ odds of reporting changes to their household because of specific migration-related processes (e.g., leaving someone in Venezuela, leaving someone in another country). Results underscore a simultaneous escalation of economic, safety, and political concerns that informed Venezuelans’ increasing intentions to out-migrate. Where Venezuelans migrated and who ended up in their households abroad varied by demographic background and migration experiences. Among UNHCR-registered Venezuelans, 43% left family members in Venezuela, and more than 10% left or were left behind by members in another country. Such household separations, however, were unevenly distributed across factors such as age, gender, and country of reception.

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Hanging on to hope in a Mexican migrant shelter: the empowering potential of Albergue Tochán

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Witnesses to inhumanity on shifting terrain: Embracing an ethic of discomfort for optimal learning in an international field course

Witnesses to inhumanity on shifting terrain: Embracing an ethic of discomfort for optimal learning in an international field course

The Venezuelan Humanitarian Crisis, Out-Migration, and Household Change Among Venezuelans in Venezuela and Abroad

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