| Description | This talk addresses one of the most heavily surveilled locations in the United States: the Tohono O’odham reservation that extends along the Arizona-Mexico “borderland.” Not only are surveillance technologies used to track down migrants, but they also have serious consequences for Native peoples living on both sides of the border. Through a more capacious framing of the Indigenous borderlands, debates about “borders” in Xicana migration studies are placed in dialogue with Indigenous peoples such as the Tohono O’odham. Caught between migrants crossing their land and the rapid expansion of border security violence, Indigenous struggles for sovereignty demand border solidarity rather than military occupation.
Felicity Amaya Schaeffer (Critical Race & Ethnic Studies and Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz) researches Latinx and Indigenous decolonial studies, migration and border surveillance, and critical race Science and Technology Studies. Her most recent book, Unsettled Borders: The Militarized Surveillance on Sacred Indigenous Land (2022) received honorable mention from the John Hope Franklin award at the 2023 America Studies Association.
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