Migrant Border Politics My previous installment questioned tendencies on both right and left to represent the migrant caravan through reductive
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/).
Making Sensation and Sense of the Migrant Caravan of Fall 2018, Part One
General Introduction On October 13, 2018, a large caravan of migrants departed from San Pedro Sula, Honduras, heading north toward