A Common Humanity: Ritual, Religion, and Immigrant Advocacy in Tucson, Arizona

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Contents Acknowledgments vii 1 Migrant Deaths and Immigrant Advocacy in Southern Arizona 1 Interstice: Annie, during a Samaritan patrol, 2005 2 Political Imagination in the United States 17 Interstice: An undated memo during fieldwork 3 US-Mexico Border Enforcement and the Emergence of Immigrant Advocacy in Tucson 33 Interstice: Field notes from the NMD Maricopa station, 2006 4 Immigrant Advocacy in Tucson Responds to the Gatekeeper Complex 56 Interstice: Notes from a Derechos Humanos meeting, 2005 5 Individual Worldviews: Humanity, Nationality, and Ultimacy 82 6 Collective Expression: Dramatizing the Crisis 108 7 The El Tiradito Vigil 132 8 Memorial Marches 151 Interstice: Memo on a Samaritans trip, 2004 9 Ritual Transformation and Cosmopolitics in Tucson Immigrant Advocacy 174 Notes 191 Bibliography 203 Index 213 ...