Accompaniment with Im/migrant Communities

This collection brings together the experiences and voices of anthropologists whose engaged work with im/migrant communities pushes the boundaries of ethnography toward a feminist, care-based, decolonial mode of ethnographic engagement called “accompaniment.” Accompaniment as anthropological research and praxis troubles the boundaries of researcher-participant, scholar-activist, and academic-community to explicitly address issues of power, inequality, and the broader social purpose of the work. More than two dozen contributors show how accompaniment is not merely a mode of knowledge production but an ethical commitment that calls researchers to action in solidarity with those whose lives we seek to understand. The volume stands as a collective conversation about possibilities for caring and decolonial forms of ethnographic engagement with im/migrant communities.

This volume is ideal for scholars, students, immigrant activists, instructors, and those interested in social justice work.

Contributors

Carolina

Alonso Bejarano

Anna Aziza Grewe

Alaska Burdette

Whitney L. Duncan

Carlos Escalante Villagran

Christina M. Getrich

Tobin Hansen

Lauren Heidbrink

Dan Heiman

Josiah Heyman

Sarah Horton

Nolan Kline

Alana M. W. LeBrÓn

Lupe LÓpez

William D. Lopez

Aida LÓpez Huinil

Mirian A. Mijangos GarcÍa

Nicole L. Novak

Mariela NuÑez-Janes

Ana Ortez-Rivera

Juan Edwin Pacay Mendoza

Salvador Brandon Pacay Mendoza

MarÍa Engracia Robles Robles

Delmis Umanzor

Erika Vargas Reyes

Kristin E. Yarris