Erasing Migrant Bodies: Curating violence and exhibiting migrants on the Mexico-USA Border
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Dellios, Alexandra
Henrich, Eureka
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The Mexican–US border is a place where violence against the migrant body is imagined, projected, and legitimated. Violence cascades from the border into the local communities of both Texas and Chihuahua, as drug gangs and people smugglers have become part of daily life. The number of violent deaths continues to rise, as thousands of vulnerable migrants, mules, and refugees are killed. This chapter investigates two heritage precincts in the neighbouring states of Texas and Chihuahua. Rather than directly contrast the two heritage sites, the chapter explores emerging approaches to museology and migration across the border. The chapter focuses on the human body as a means to communicate vulnerability across difference, but also reflects on the body as a means for fearful communities to silence and deny migrants’ presence.
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Migrant, Multicultural and Diasporic HeritageBeyond and Between Borders
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Critical heritage, museum and archive studies
Latin and South American history
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Mason, R, Erasing Migrant Bodies: Curating violence and exhibiting migrants on the Mexico-USA Border, Migrant, Multicultural and Diasporic Heritage: Beyond and Between Borders, 2020