Accompaniment with Im/migrant Communities

Kristin E. Yarris is an associate professor in the Departments of Global Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Oregon. Her research, teaching, and community work focus on transnational migration, immigrant rights and inclusion, and health equity. Whitney L. Duncan is a professor of anthropology at the University of Northern Colorado and a medical and psychological anthropologist whose research centers on immigration and the sociopolitical, cultural, and global aspects of health and emotion.

• Introduction: Accompaniment as Anthropological Praxis. Kristin E. Yarris & Whitney L. DuncanPart I: Accompaniment with Students, Youth, and FamiliesChapter 1. “We’ve Been There Alongside Each Other Right from the Beginning”: Accompaniment as Multivalent and Evolving Practice for the DACA-mented DREAM Team.Christina M. Getrich, Alaska Burdette, Ana Ortez-Rivera & Delmis UmanzorChapter 2. AcompaÑamiento as a Critical Pedagogy in Action. Mariela NuÑez-Janes &Dan HeimanPart II: Pragmatic Solidarity: Accompaniment in Binational, Bureaucratic, and Activist SpacesChapter 3. Mercados Dignos: Intergenerational accompaniment among Indigenous collectives in Guatemala. Carlos Escalante VillagrÁn, Anna Grewe, AÍda Lopez, Juan Pacay Mendoza, Salvador Pacay Mendoza & Lauren HeidbrinkChapter 4. ‘Being With,’ ‘Doing For,’ and ‘Doing With’: An ‘Accompaniment’ Approach to Applied Research. Sarah B. HortonChapter 5. Accompaniment in Activist Spaces: Solidarity at Ethnography’s Edges With an Immigrant Bond Fund. Kristin Elizabeth YarrisPart III. Methodologies of Accompaniment: Solidarity, Affect, and CompanionshipChapter 6. A Public Health of Accompaniment. William D. Lopez, Nolan Kline, Nicole L. Novak & Alana M.W. LebrÓn Chapter 7. Accompaniment and Testimonio: Migration Narratives in and Beyond the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. Tobin Hansen & MarÍa Engracia Robles RoblesChapter 8. convivencia: Storytelling as Accompaniment, Activism, and Care. Erika Vargas Reyes, Lupe LÓpez & Whitney L. DuncanPart IV. Concluding Reflections: Accompaniment & Caring AnthropologyChapter 9. Commentary: Accompaniment as Moral and Political Practice. Josiah HeymanEpilogue: Multiple Approaches, Shared Aims: Accompaniment as Caring EthnographicPraxis. Kristin E. Yarris & Whitney L. Duncan

“This cutting-edge volume brings together some of the most well-respected migration scholars who, through their critical and reflexive ethnographic engagements and writing, demonstrate the possibilities of anthropological practice as truly collaborative and politically engaged. The volume’s unifying theme of accompaniment take us to multiple sites and spaces where we may reimagine our roles as scholar-activists and contribute to meaningful and material change and justice for the communities we work alongside.”—Wendy Vogt, author of Lives in Transit: Violence and Intimacy on the Migrant Journey