Understanding migrant caravans1from the place of place privilege

Abstract

In this essay, I write from a positionality I call "place privilege,"a location I share with people like Donald Trump because we comment from where we were born, raised, and live. I attempt to challenge the limits and also use the privilege of that positionality to offer a rethinking of caravans coming from Central America as coalitions in motion, as calls to an ethical relation, and as weapons of the weak.