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Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on the Cover Art -- 1. Halted Expectations -- In Their Own Words: Josh Childress, Former U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agent -- 2. Long Stories Short -- In Their Own Words: Alina Das, Immigration Attorney -- 3. Emotional Labor -- In Their Own Words: Ethan Taubes, Asylum Officer Trainer -- 4. Nonverbal Communication and Credibility -- In Their Own Words: Dr. Renée Sicalides, Psychologist -- 5. Deterring Asylum -- In Their Own Words: Jeffery Chase, Former Immigration Judge -- 6. The Return

'Undocumented Storytellers' offers a critical exploration of the ways undocumented immigrants harness the power of storytelling as a means of self-actualization, to mitigate the fear and uncertainty of life without legal status, and to advocate for immigration reform

1. Refugees as audiences of U.S. media in pre-arrival contexts -- 2. Refugees' use of media in pre-departure preparation and orientations -- 3. Voluntary and mandated media encounters during refugees' first days in the U.S. -- 4. Media and refugees' ongoing resettlement.

This project analyzes the roles of communication and culture in credible fear interviews and asylum hearings in the United States to elucidate how autobiographical testimonies enable and restrain asylum seekers in their efforts to establish themselves as deserving of protection. This work shows how trauma influences one's ability to narrate their past and argues that culturally-bound storytelling norms negatively and unevenly threaten the outcomes of some asylum cases. I support this claim with evidence from oral history interviews with asylum seekers, immigration officers, judges, and attorneys.

This essay examines Moving Memories, the 9/11 Memorial in Tucson, Arizona, as an instance of resistance to dominant ideologies regarding the public memory of national tragedy. Though Moving Memories was designed to reveal the conflicting viewpoints embodied by those affected by 9/11, area residents and government representatives argue that it fails to capture the "true" sentiment of Arizonans. This analysis provides a theoretical interrogation of the memorial's unveiling and later contestation, illustrates the political value of unity over dissention, and theorizes the implications of spatiality in memorialization by way of a detailed review of one of Moving Memories' particularly divisive features.

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ECA Estudios Centroamericanos, Vol. 78, No. 774, 2023: 101-110.