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In mid-July 2014 at the height of increasing alarm and frenzied media coverage about the unfolding humanitarian emergency involving thousands of unaccompanied minors at the US-Mexico border, the New York Times published a powerful essay by journalist Sonia Nazario who argued that the events constituted not a new immigration crisis, but instead a refugee crisis with tens of thousands of young people fleeing extreme violence in their homes throughout Central America. And while the origins of this calamity are complex and deeply rooted in local, transnational and geopolitical events, the response by the US government, according to Nazario, should be straightforward and aligned with clear international conventions guiding humanitarian responses to refugee crises around the world. "It would be a disgrace if this wealthy nation turned its back on the 52,000 children who have arrived since October, many of them legitimate refugees," Nazario argues. "This is not how a great nation treats its children" (Nazario, 2014). In both her essay and broader investigative reporting, Nazario provides the kind of detailed, nuanced and extensive engagement with peoples' lives that is absolutely essential for telling a story that both defies reductionist and deeply polarized positions on immigration, and offers, instead, the possibility for engendering an empathetic response rooted in understanding the conditions that compel tens of thousands of young men and women to risk the treacherous journey from Central America to the United States each year. In this way, Nazario's stories about the humanitarian crisis on the US-Mexico border, not only help us to understand the unimaginable, but also draw our attention to the ways migrants' lives are deeply shaped by incredible levels of violence, poverty and militarism on both sides of the border. Indeed, Nazario's work exemplifies the advantages and challenges of sustained engagement that characterize not only good investigative journalism, but ethnographic practice as well. This is probably why I am so drawn to her work and the stories she is able to tell. As an ethnographer committed to ethical and engaged feminist practice, I also want to observe, document and share stories. As Maria Vesperi and Alisse Waterston observe, I, like other ethnographers, hope to disseminate "anthropological knowledge in straightforward, powerful ways" (Vesperi and Waterston, 2009, 1). And I seek to do so...