I appreciated the choice of reading for this week as it covers the main topic of last class, cultural artifacts. The author well blends the items shown, with the interviews presented in the work. It did bring up a few questions for me, one was his stance on participating, even as an outsider, to the struggles encountered by those he interviewed. He highlights his privilege as a reason for refusing the request, since he can’t accurately give a representation of what an illegal migrant would go through, instead he presents the story of another person who did decide to participate, and subsequently criticized that person for focusing on their experience not the experience of the migrants. He says you can only present your own story, and then criticizes someone for focusing on their own story? seems Hypocritical. Perhaps I’m wrong here, but it appeared to me that safety was the important factor, not providing an accurate experience.