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Other People’s Children

Integrating personal stories of maternal connection and separation with a detailed analysis of the 2018 crisis of migrant family separation in the United States, this autoethnographic essay examines the continuum between parental responsibility and collective engagement for the greater good. A comparison is made between the current crisis of family separation and the case of the Stolen Generations of Indigenous children in Australia, particularly the tendency toward collective forgetting. The essay calls for the protective and compassionate impulses felt in the midst of this crisis to be translated into democratic participation and empowered voices raised in resistance.