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Refusing Settler (B)ordering: Testimonies from the Maya Maíz Roots Conference

In April 2019, migrant, Latinx, and Indigenous peoples came together over four days as part of the Maya Maiz Roots (MMR) Conference as an act of defiance against the 2012 Ethnic Studies Ban, as well as a response to the violent anti-migrant policies imposed by the first Trump administration. This talk draws on testimonies from the MMR Conference to study practices of refusal against the state’s attempt to (b)order Indigenous and migrant struggles. Through their testimonies, attendees engaged in geopolitical, epistemic, and temporal crossings to challenge the fragmentation of decolonial histories, resurgence, and solidarity. This talk also opens space to reflect on our current crossroads, marked by the intensification of anti-migrant violence and attacks on universities under the second Trump administration, to ask what kind of border crossings are needed at this present conjuncture to resist state violence?

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Center for Biographical Research, Center for Oral History, Department of Anthropology, Department of English, Hamilton Library, Peacebuilding LLC, School of Com, Mānoa Campus

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