Hostile Terrain 94 Exhibit | Undocumented Migration Project
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Our world is facing a desperate humanitarian crisis: the displacement of entire communities due to economic disparities, environmental crises, political instability, and fear for their own survival. The status and future of refugees and migrants has become an indelible political issue, nowhere more so that at the southwestern border of the United States. Undocumented individuals migrating to the U.S. often cross through the "hostile terrain" of the Sonoran desert, and as a result many have perished due to dehydration, exposure, or homicide. Funding is requested to support programming and events associated with an exhibit at East Carolina University in fall of 2020 focusing on the dangers of undocumented migration at the U.S./Mexico border. The Hostile Terrain 94 (HT 94) exhibit organized by the Undocumented Migration Project (UMP) seeks to create uniquely personal interactions between migrants crossing the Arizona-Mexico border and exhibit visitors and participants. These experiences come through documenting the intimate details of those who lost their lives during this journey, through observing the landscape of migrant deaths, and hearing the stories of those who have been refugees or migrants in the past, and considering why people make the difficult decision to leave their home, their family, and their community.
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