"This collection highlights how meXicana scholars center their community-engaged research to reflect on important regional themes in the U.S. Southwest and the U.S. Mexico Borderlands. Divided into five sections, authors explore what it means to cultivate spaces of belonging, navigate language policies, and explore and excavate silences in various spaces, among other important themes, with a particular emphasis on Arizona in each section"-- Provided by publisher.

"This book provides an interdisciplinary perspective of child migrant detention, by bringing together voices from the legal realm, the academic world, and the on-the-ground experiences of activists and practitioners. The chapters explore the harms of detention while also looking at survival in and resistance to this violent institution"-- Provided by publisher.