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In Chicago, Mexican-American Altars Reimagine Home
As ICE increasingly targets migrant neighborhoods, carefully crafted altars to La Virgen de Guadalupe outside homes transform sidewalks into sites of community and protection.
Crystal Vance Guerra
Crystal Vance Guerra is a Craft Archival Fellow. She investigates Mexican altar making as a diasporic craft tradition and living archive, documenting how migrants utilize this practice to assert their presence, preserve memory, and resist erasure.
