Faith, Fencing & Fate: New Cultural Landscapes of Migration in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

On our walls from July 6 onward

Crossing the southern border of the United States without authorization is now a life-threatening journey. As undocumented migrants travel north, they interact with and transform the landscape in small, yet significant ways through the things they leave behind, from shelters and shrines to quotidian objects. This collaborative project by Juanita Sundberg, a human geographer at UBC and Michael Hyatt, a social documentary photographer, records and represents these new cultural landscapes of migration in Arizona’s Altar Valley. Whether ephemeral or enduring, the landscapes left behind invite compelling questions about the sensory dimensions of migration, the ways geopolitics, bodies, and desert landscapes meet.

Save the date for a talk by Juanita Sundberg: Thursday, August 12 at 7:00pm