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. LeBrOn Lupe LOpez William D. Lopez Aida LOpez Huinil Mirian A. Mijangos GarcIa Nicole L. Novak Mariela NuNez-Janes Ana Ortez-Rivera Juan Edwin Pacay Mendoza Salvador Brandon Pacay Mendoza MarIa Engracia Robles Robles Delmis Umanzor Erika Vargas Reyes Kristin E. Yarris