This Religion and Complex Social Issues Series event is part of an ongoing conversation around immigration, migration, and refuge in the Department of Theological Studies at Saint Louis University. Guest speakers for this event include Sara John, Executive Director of the Interfaith Coalition on Latin America; Pedro de Velasco Garza, Director of Education and Advocacy, Kino Border Initiative; and Jessica Trout, Center for Service and Community Engagement, Saint Louis University.
Prof. Daisy Vargas, PhD
Assistant Professor, University of Arizona
This event is part of an ongoing conversation around immigration, migration, and refuge sponsored by Lived Religion in the Digital Age and the Religion and Complex Social Issues series in the Department of Theological Studies at Saint Louis University. In this talk, Prof. Vargas explores life and death at the Mexico-U.S. borderlands through the material objects that migrants bring on their journeys.