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Author: Robert McKee Irwin

Robert McKee Irwin (PhD Comparative Literature, New York University) is Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Davis, where he is also Codirector of the Mellon Initiative in Comparative Border Studies (http://borderstudies.ucdavis.edu/). He is author or editor of several books including Mexican Masculinities and Dictionary of Latin American Cultural Studies (coeditor with Mónica Szurmuk). Currently he coordinates the digital storytelling project Humanizando la Deportación (http://humanizandoladeportacion.ucdavis.edu/en/).
sign welcoming migrants to Paso del Coyote informal border crossing between Mexico and Guatemala

Thickening Borders Across Mexico: Follow-up Stories from the Caravan

February 4, 2020Robert McKee Irwin Latinx Literature, Research In Brief Leave a comment

The departure of a large caravan of Central American migrants from Honduras, whose journey into and through Mexico received constant

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Making Sensation and Sense of the Migrant Caravan of Fall 2018, Part Two

March 26, 2019Robert McKee Irwin On the Ground Leave a comment

Migrant Border Politics My previous installment questioned tendencies on both right and left to represent the migrant caravan through reductive

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Making Sensation and Sense of the Migrant Caravan of Fall 2018, Part One

March 19, 2019Robert McKee Irwin On the Ground Leave a comment

General Introduction On October 13, 2018, a large caravan of migrants departed from San Pedro Sula, Honduras, heading north toward

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