Delia's Return: The Detention and Deportation of an Unaccompanied Child.

In the United States, media and policy discourses reduce migrant youth to various abbreviated tropes: the victim, the threat, the economic migrant, the model minority. While Gabriela initially sketched from photographs, fieldnotes, and her and my memories, Delia added layers of ethnographic detail, such as the slight tilt of her father's hat and the colors of her treasured bracelet - the only personal item that she surreptitiously kept with her in detention. Illustrator Gabriela Afable enlisted the design application Procreate® to visually render the narrative, allowing for sufficient abstractions to conceal Delia and her family's identity and for ready adaptation of illustrations in response to shifts in our collective creative process. Discussions of Indigeneity are critically important to understanding the ways colonial domination, neoliberal capitalism, and securitized approaches to migration management disproportionately impact Indigenous peoples over time (Heidbrink 2020). [Extracted from the article]