Uprooting Violence
A BorderLinks Book Talk Series
BorderLinks is a response to the profound dehumanization, and legal and extralegal violence migrants face. Central to the BorderLinks mission is the use of popular education to transform the world through critical awareness, reflection, and informed collective action. We invite you to deepen your understanding with us through our Uprooting Violence Book Talk Series. Join us in discussion with our guest speakers as we explore the themes of violence, migration, and resistance to structural oppression. Check out our event schedule, learn more, and register using the links below.
October 13, 2022
A virtual discussion with Dr. Daniel Martínez, co-editor of The Shadow of the Wall: Violence and Migration on the U.S.-Mexico Border.
Mass deportation is at the forefront of political discourse in the United States. The Shadow of the Wall shows in tangible ways the migration experiences of hundreds of people, including their encounters with U.S. Border Patrol, cartels, detention facilities, and the deportation process.
Thursday, October 13, 2022, 3:00PM PT/6:00PM ET.
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December 1, 2022 postponed, TBA, Spring 2023
A virtual discussion with Dr. Shannon Speed, author of Incarcerated Stories: Indigenous Women Migrants and Violence in the Settler-Capitalist State.
Indigenous women migrants from Central America and Mexico face harrowing experiences of violence before, during, and after their migration to the United States, like all asylum seekers. But as Shannon Speed argues, the circumstances for Indigenous women are especially devastating, given their disproportionate vulnerability to neoliberal economic and political policies and practices in Latin America and the United States, including policing, detention, and human trafficking.
Thursday, December 1, 2022, 2:00PM PT/3PM MT/5:00PM ET.
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TBA, Spring 2023
A virtual discussion with Dr. Michelle Téllez, co-editor of The Chicana M(other)work Anthology.
The Chicana M(other)work Anthology weaves together emerging scholarship and testimonios by and about self-identified Chicana and Women of Color mother-scholars, activists, and allies who center mothering as transformative labor through an intersectional lens.
TBA, Spring 2023
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About BorderLinks
Humanity is living through a moment of extreme climate change, global displacement, and militarization. Located 60 miles from the Mexican border, BorderLinks facilitates place-based, popular education about immigration, borders, and social action with the explicit goal of liberation. We believe in the transformative power embedded in this unique, and historically, culturally and demographically diverse region, for education to support local advocacy efforts and contribute to broader social movements. At the heart of BorderLinks, we center those most directly impacted by border militarization, immigration policies and others working for systemic change in our staff and in our community partner collaborations with over 30+ local organizations. BorderLinks offers virtual and in-person workshops and delegations with high schools, universities, churches, and civic associations from Tucson, the US, and worldwide.
