Hostile Terrain 94 and Separated Exhibition Resources subjectId: 690581

This library research guide supports the spring 2021 exhibition of Hostile Terrain 94 and it's companion, Separated.  Co-sponsored by the Learning Commons and University of Miami Libraries with the Departments of Anthropology and English, the Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas, the Latin American Studies Program, and the William R. Butler Center for Volunteer Service and Leadership Development, Hostile Terrain 94 and Separated bring attention to the contemporary immigration crisis at the U.S./Mexico border.

Hostile Terrain 94 (HT94) is a global pop-up exhibition created by UCLA anthropologist Jason De Léon and the Undocumented Migration Project.  Dr. Pamela Geller (Anthropology) and Dr. Brenna Munro (English) are the local curators of the exhibition on display on the first floor of Otto G. Richter Library.  It features over 3,200 hand-written toe tags with the identifying information of migrating people who died attempting to cross the Sonoran Desert since 1994, geolocated on an enlarged wall map of Arizona.

Separated is a companion exhibition presented by the Learning Commons in conversation with HT94's faculty curators.  It responds to the larger exhibition with attention to the children who were separated from their parents and caregivers at the southern border of the U.S. between 2017 and 2020, focusing specifically on the 628 who were still in state custody at the end of 2020 because of lax/nonexistent record keeping.

Detail from Reliquary: A Collection of Objects from the Mojave Desert, an artist book by Kerri Miki-Lani Schroeder, 2015.  Schroeder's book, a reflection on the contemporary migration experience, can be viewed by appointment through Special Collections.


 

Luiselli, Valeria. Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions. Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2017. Online.

Cammisa, Rebecca, James Lavino, HBO Documentary Films, Good White Buffalo Entertainment, Mr. Mudd, Documentress Films, and Bullfrog Films. Which Way Home. Oley, Pa.: Bullfrog Films, 2009. DVD.

Galisky, Anne Frances, Rebecca Shine, Grupo Juvenil, Production Company, and National Educational Telecommunication Association, Film Distributor. Papers: Stories of Undocumented Youth. Portland, Oregon]: Graham Street Productions, 2013. DVD.

Kennedy, Rory, Mark Bailey, Liz Garbus, Keven McAlester, Sheila Nevins, Nick Doob, Sari Gilman, Miriam Cutler, Home Box Office, Moxie Firecracker Films, Inc, and HBO Documentary Films. The Fence = (La Barda). Widescreen. ed. New York, NY]: HBO Documentary Films, 2010. DVD.

Atak, Idil, and James C. Simeon. Criminalization of Migration: Context and Consequences. Montreal: McGill-Queens's UP, 2018. Print.

Brigden, Noelle Kateri. The Migrant Passage: Clandestine Journeys from Central America. Ithaca [New York]: Cornell UP, 2018. Web.

Cantú, Francisco. The Line Becomes a River. New York, New York: Riverhead, 2018. Web.

Chávez, Alex E. Sounds of Crossing: Music, Migration, and the Aural Poetics of Huapango Arribeño. Durham: Duke UP, 2017. Print.

Garcia, Maria Cristina. Seeking Refuge: Central American Migration to Mexico, the United States, and Canada. Berkeley, CA: U of California, 2006. Web.

Grandin, Greg. The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War. Chicago: U of Chicago, 2004. Print.

Hoerder, Dirk, Nora Helen Faires. Migrants and Migration in Modern North America Cross-border Lives, Labor Markets, and Politics. Durham [N.C.]: Duke UP, 2011. E-Duke Books Scholarly Collection. Web.

LaFeber, Walter. Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America. Second ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1993. Print.

Lattanzi Shutika, Debra. Beyond the Borderlands: Migration and Belonging in the United States and Mexico. Berkeley, CA: U of California, 2011. Web.

Menchú, Rigoberta, and Elisabeth Burgos-Debray. I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala. Second English-language ed. London; New York: Verso, 2010. Print.

Quinn, Veronica K. Unaccompanied Children from Central America: Issues and Considerations. New York: Novinka, 2015. Latin American Political, Economic, and Security Issues. Web.

Ramírez, Sergio. Adiós Muchachos: A Memoir of the Sandinista Revolution. Durham: Duke UP, 2012. Print.
 

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere. Migration Crisis: Oversight of the Administration's Proposed $1 Billion Request for Central America : Hearing before the Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourteenth Congress, First Session, April 30, 2015. Washington: U.S. Government Office, 2015. Print.
 
United States. Government Accountability Office. Central America, Information on Migration of Unaccompanied Children from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras : Report to Congressional Requesters. Washington, D.C.]: United States Government Accountability Office, 2015. Web.
 
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Dangerous Passage: Central America in Crisis and the Exodus of Unaccompanied Minors : Hearing before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States, Senate, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, Second Session, July 17, 2014. Washington: U.S. Government Office, 2015. Print. United States. Congress. Senate. S. Hrg. ; 113-645.

Long, Clara, Alison Parker, and Human Rights Watch. "You Don't Have Rights Here" : US Border Screening and Returns of Central Americans to Risk of Serious Harm. New York]: Human Rights Watch, 2014. Print.
 

Argueta, Jorge. Somos Como Las Nubes [We Are Like the Clouds]. Groundwood, 2016. Print.

Brown, Skila. Caminar. First ed. Somerville, Massachusetts: Candlewick, 2014. Print.

Henríquez, Cristina. The Book of Unknown Americans. First ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. Print.

Menchú, Rigoberta, Dante Liano, David Unger, and Domi. The Girl from Chimel. Toronto: Groundwood /House of Anansi, 2005. Print.

Salazar, Aida. Land of the Cranes. First ed. New York: Scholastic, 2020. Print.

Tonatiuh, Duncan. Pancho Rabbit and the Coyote: A Migrant's Tale. New York: Abrams  for Young Readers, 2013. Print.

Tonatiuh, Duncan. Soldier for Equality: José De La Luz Saénz and the Great War. New York: Abrams  for Young Readers, 2019. Print.

Torres Sanchez, Jenny. We Are Not from Here. New York: Philomel, 2020. Print.

Luiselli, Valeria. Lost Children Archive. First ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2019. Web.

 

“U.S. Detention of Child Migrants”
Council on Foreign Relations

“Immigrants Rights”
American Civil Liberties Union

Executive Order on the Establishment of Interagency Task Force on the Reunification of Families
The White House, 2/2/21

Kibria, Nazli. "FamiliesBelongTogether: Facts and Fictions of Race and Family in U.S. Immigration Policy." Sociological Forum (Randolph, N.J.) 34.4 (2019): 809-17.

Mattingly, T. Joseph, Kiser, Laurel, Hill, Sherika, Briggs, Ernestine C, Trunzo, Carrie Purbeck, Zafari, Zafar, and Betancourt, Theresa S. "Unseen Costs: The Direct and Indirect Impact of U.S. Immigration Policies on Child and Adolescent Health and Well‐Being." Journal of Traumatic Stress 33.6 (2020): 873-81.

“The Parents of 666 Migrant Children Separated at the Border Are Still Missing: An ACLU Lawyer Describes the Lasting Trauma”
NBC News Boston


“Migrant families fought for reunification months after separation policy ended”
ABC News

“The parents of 545 children separated at the border still haven’t been found. The pandemic isn’t helping.”
Washington Post

“Lawyers can't find the parents of 666 migrant kids, a higher number than previously reported”
NBC News

“Parents of 628 migrant children separated at border still have not been found, court filing says”
CNN

“628 parents of separated children are still missing. Here's why immigrant advocates can't find them.”
USA Today

“Lawyers have found the parents of 105 separated migrant children in past month”
NBC News

Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Latin American and Caribbean History

GEG 346: Immigrant & Refugee Health

INS 566 US-Latin American Relations

 

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