Searching for Safety: Migrant experiences of detention, removal, and community solidarity
Channel: Center for Latin American & Border Studies (CLABS)
Date: 11/11/2021

Dr. Neil Harvey, Ava McElhones Yates, and Zaria Martin present results of a Research Experience for Undergraduates Site Program (NSF-REU) that supports research on the nature and impacts of US immigration policies on migrants in the Paso del Norte region of the US-Mexico border. They reflect on various consequences of immigration policy, such as the mistreatment of detained migrants and impacts of COVID-19 on ICE detention centers, how deportation and the Migrant Protection Protocols ("Remain in Mexico" policy) have placed migrants and asylum seekers at great risk of harm, and how community solidarity efforts, including sanctuary policies ad practices, are developed and implemented by different jurisdictions and advocacy groups. 

Presented October 28, 2020

Presented by:
Dr. Neil Harvey, New Mexico State University
Ava McEhones Yates, Vassar College
Zaria Martin, New Mexico State University