With Barbara Sostaita, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Mahindra Center, Harvard University.

Most sanctuary efforts in the United States focus on preventing and sheltering migrants from deportation. Based on research in Nogales, Sonora -- notoriously known as "the city of the deported"-- this talk charts sanctuary in the wake of deportation. We will travel with Panchito Olachea, a deported nurse who repurposed a church van as an ambulance and treats migrants ineligible for medical care in the border town, to consider how sanctuary travels across and disrupts national borders. 

About the speaker:

Barbara Sostaita is a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, where she is editing a manuscript titled Sanctuary Everywhere: Fugitive Care on the Migrant Trail. Focused on the Sonora-Arizona borderlands, she documents moments of care and intimacy that expose the impermanence and instability of border militarization.

Currently planned as a hybrid event with in person and online aptions. A boxed lunch will be served to registered attendees at the conclusion of the event.  

Register for either the in person or online Zoom option at: tinyurl.com/SostaitaRSVP