Solidarity and Belonging Beyond Borders — Exit Wounds: How America’s Guns Fuel Violence Across the Border

Please join us Thursday, March 21, at 5 p.m. for our second event for the 2024 Penn Migration Initative’s Speaker Series, “Solidarity and Belonging Beyond Borders,” featuring Ieva Jusionyte, associate professor of international security and anthropology at Brown University. She will present her book Exit Wounds: How America’s Guns Fuel Violence Across the Border (UC Press 2024), which provides a rare, intimate look into the world of firearms trafficking and urges us to understand the effects of lax U.S. gun laws abroad. Based on years of fieldwork, Exit Wounds expands current debates about guns in America, grappling with U.S. complicity in violence on both sides of the border.

The event is free and open to the public.

Ieva Jusionyte is the Watson Family University Associate Professor of International Security and Anthropology at Brown University. A legal and medical anthropologist who studies, teaches and writes about violence and security, she is the author of three books, including multiple award-winning ethnography, Threshold: Emergency Responders on the US-Mexico Border (2018) and Exit Wounds: How America’s Guns Fuel Violence Across the Border (April 2024). Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation and fellowships from the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, the Fulbright Program and the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center, among others. In addition to academic journals, such as American Anthropologist, Cultural Anthropology, and Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Jusionyte has written for The Atlantic, the Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, and The Guardian, and discussed her research broadly in the media, including on BBC and NPR. Jusionyte is the editor of the California Series in Public Anthropology, and she is a member of the Advisory Committee of Global Action on Gun Violence and the Research Network to Prevent Gun Violence in the Americas.