Benjamin Nienass
Assistant Professor of Political Science, California State University, San Marcos
“Deaths, (In)Visibility, and Responsibility: The Politics of Mourning at the U.S.-Mexico Border” (Co-presenting with Alexandra Délano Alonso)
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.