Alexandra Délano Alonso
Assistant Professor of Global Studies/Co-director of the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility, The New School
“Deaths, (In)Visibility, and Responsibility: The Politics of Mourning at the U.S.-Mexico Border” (Co-presenting with Benjamin Nienass)
This paper examines how activists and migrant organizations try to fill the voids of care and responsibility by politicizing (intentionally or unintentionally) the bodies and the remains of the dead migrants, and challenging the boundaries of grievability.