Acknowledgments

We would like to thank the two anonymous reviewers who read an earlier draft of this monograph. The interludes in Chapter 3 are among the changes made in direct response to their insights. Thanks to Jeff Rice (editor), Sergio Figueiredo (design and layout), and Eric Detweiler (copyediting) at Intermezzo for their work publishing this study.

Elenore Long, Professor of English and Community Literacy, Department of English, Arizona State University

Ellie thanks Samra Maragan, Roda Nyapuot Kuek, Tap Dak, and William Tuoy-Giel for invitations to take up work together with the South Sudanese diaspora in Phoenix. Thanks to Mik Heintz for copyediting our initial submission.

Elizabeth Kimball, Assistant Professor of English, Department of English and Philosophy, Drexel University

Liz thanks the staff and community of Neighborhood House in Morristown, New Jersey, especially Rosa Chilquillo, program director. She also thanks Elise DuBord, faculty member in Spanish, for her partnership and friendship during their shared time at Drew University.

Jennifer Clifton, Project Coordinator of Research, CoLab: Religion, Science and Technology in Public Life; Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict, Arizona State Univerity

Jen thanks the Tigua of Ysleta del Sur Pueblo and especially Pat Riggs and Javier Loera for their gracious solidarity, friendship, and partnership. Thanks too to the National Park Service at Chamizal and to José Manuel Flores for his illustration in case 3.