Wounding Wall: Infrastructure, Injury, and Rescue on the U.S.-Mexico Border

70 Memorial Drive,Cambridge MA 02142

28 September, 2021

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Ieva Jusionyte, Watson Family University Associate Professor of International Security and Anthropology, Brown University "Wounding Wall: Infrastructure, Injury, and Rescue on the U.S.-Mexico Border"Ieva Jusionyte, Watson Family University Associate Professor of International Security and Anthropology, Brown University 3:30-5:00pm Tuesday September 28 Room E51-095 Criminalization of migration, aggravated by concerns with global terrorism, led the United States government to designate the border with Mexico as a source of threats and justify the building of the wall – a key component of what the Border Patrol calls “tactical infrastructure.” Based on ethnographic research with emergency responders – firefighters, EMTs, paramedics – in binational border towns in southern Arizona and northern Sonora, this talk examines the disastrous social and ecological effects of deploying both the built environment and the natural topography in the name of national security. ***Reminder that masking indoors is currently required at MIT regardless of vaccination status. Please sign up via Eventbrite if you are not in MIT Covid Pass system. The MIT Anthropology program introduces students to the field of cultural anthropology and to the diversity of global cultures