Month: November 2024

Documentary film screening
Wed. November 20, 2024 7-9 p.m.
HSSC A2231 – Auditorium

Border South by Raúl O. Paz-Pastrana humanizes global migration by documenting the perilous routes that migrants funneled to the Sonoran Desert must take to enter the U.S. It renders visible the current U.S. border policies that lead to thousands of migrant deaths. The film is being screened in conjunction with the Hostile Terrain 94 installation now on exhibit at Bucksbaum. The film will be followed by a Q&A with student panelists including Jorge Salinas ’26 (Anthropology).

We have finally completed the Hostile Terrain 94 installation at Grinnell College! Student volunteers Avajane L, Luis L., Da Hye O., Julia G., Judd B., Kyle F., and Jorge Salinas have done an amazing job helping to finish filling out the toe tags and pinning all of the remaining tags. The exhibit has the names of all 3,992 migrants who have died attempting to cross the U.S.-Mexico border under the inhumane U.S. border policy of Prevention Through Deterrence. The exhibit will be on view in Bucksbaum until May 2025.

Professors Xavi Escandell and Laura Ng pinning the last toe tag to complete the exhibit.

Professors Xavi Escandell and Laura Ng with the most dedicated student volunteers on the HT94 exhibit.

The complete installation!

On Thursday, student volunteers completed filling out all of the toe tags and continued the hard work of pinning them onto the installation. The finish line is near!

Kyle F. working on filling out the last envelope of toe tags.

The result of Thursday’s work party. This represents more than half of all the toe tags filled out for 3,992 individuals who have lost their lives trying to cross the border because of inhumane U.S. border policies.