Shelter Vision: Compassion, Fear, and Learning to (Not) See Trauma along the Migrant Trail through Mexico

Within a context of shifting affective economies of racialised fear and reluctant humanitarianism that surround Central American migration through Mexico, this article draws on ethnographic fieldwork as a volunteer at a humanitarian migrant shelter in Central Mexico to describe how aid workers negot...

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Main Author: John Doering-White
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Edinburgh Library 2022-03-01
Series:Medicine Anthropology Theory
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Online Access:http://www.medanthrotheory.org/article/view/5416