Adrienne Pine's Blog, Siobhan McGuirk's Blog

Tuesday, April 6 Capitol Calling Party: Immigration Justice

Code Pink
April 6th, 2021

Today on the Show: Hunger striking to call attention to the US/Saudi Killing fields of Yemen. Also, the Burmese military junta continues to gun down protesters and purposely targeting children. And the accused murderer of environmental activist, Berta Caceres, goes on trial in Honduras, maybe?


Adrienne Pine is a critical medical anthropologist whose work has explored the embodiment of structural violence and imperialism in Honduras, cross-cultural approaches to revolutionary nursing, and neoliberal fascism. She has served as an expert country conditions witness in around 100 asylum cases over the past fifteen years. Adrienne is an assistant professor at the American University and author of Working Hard, Drinking Hard: On Violence and Survival in Honduras

Siobhán McGuirk is an anthropologist, journalist, curator, and filmmaker whose work focuses on gender and sexuality in the context of migration and the affective impacts of social justice organizing. She is a postdoctoral early career researcher at Goldsmiths University of London and is a member of the editorial collective of Red Pepper magazine.


Check out Adrienne Pine and Siobhán McGuirk’s & new book:

Asylum for Sale: Profit and Protest in the Migration Industry