TIFFANY LOERA NOTE: Blog article edited by author 1st December 2022 No te preocupes hija, estamos bien, my mom says reassuringly to me over the phone as we discuss the current state of the United States. As nations around the world begin to ease their lockdown restrictions, the U.S. reports over 100k deaths from the…
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Cowboys and Coronavirus: Protesting Covid-19 in ‘The Land of the Free’
ROSIE MATHERS Over the last couple of weeks protests have broken out across America against lockdown measures imposed to reduce the spread and contraction of Covid-19. Rallies across Northern and Southern states have seen demonstrators take the streets to call for an end to quarantine, an urgent reopening the economy, and the return of over…
Toward an Anthropology of ‘Foreign Bodies’: Migrant Health in the Age of Coronavirus
SCOTT SPIVEY PROVENCIO Invasion. Infestation. Contamination. Border closures. National lockdowns. Citizens only. Are we talking about the coronavirus pandemic or worldwide migrant and refugee ‘crises’? Every day, news headlines keep pouring in surrounding the mass proliferation of COVID-19, an entity that respects no borders. Doctors and politicians keep pushing for the halting of mobility and…