2024-11-21T14:40:28-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150143005/amid-concentration-camp-debate-government-moves-migrants-from-texas-border-site Antonio Pacheco 2019-06-24T17:07:00-04:00 >2019-06-24T21:34:50-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/50/50f99b3b45ed1529b918ac0c16fa5154.png?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>After the discovery of inhumane living conditions at a south <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/13324/texas" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Texas</a> temporary detention facility made headlines last week, the United States Department of Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) has moved to relocate upwards of 300 detained migrant children to other sites.&nbsp;</p> <p><em>The Associated Press</em> reported <a href="https://apnews.com/46da2dbe04f54adbb875cfbc06bbc615" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">last week</a> that while lawyers with the Immigration Law Clinic at the University of California, Davis inspected the facility to assess the detention conditions at the site, they discovered children caring for other children, children who had not bathed in days, inadequate food provisions, and a collection of other standard of living violations.</p> <p>Holly Cooper, co-director of the University of California, Davis&rsquo; Immigration Law Clinic, told the&nbsp;<em>AP</em>, &ldquo;In my 22 years of doing visits with children in detention, I have never heard of this level of inhumanity."</p> <p><a href="https://apnews.com/a7a9acc4c6a546829a258e008d10d705?utm_source=Twitter&amp;utm_campaign=SocialFlow&amp;utm_medium=AP" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">According</a> to the <em>AP</em>, the government allows for the children to be held by the Border Patrol for no longer than 72 hours, after which they must b...</p> https://archinect.com/news/article/113367275/proposal-for-the-future-of-auschwitz-birkenau Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2014-11-11T14:51:00-05:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/6u/6ujttfmy8dhzzr9b.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>When a well-intentioned Alabama teenager tweeted a smiling <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2014/07/22/the-other-side-of-the-infamous-auschwitz-selfie/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">selfie taken at Auschwitz-Birkenau</a>, she attracted a deluge of hatred and outrage from across the internet. Lambasted as disrespectful, insensitive and inappropriate, the selfie was later explained as a means of memorializing her visit to the camp for her father, who had passed away exactly a year prior to her visit. Her gesture was <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/should-auschwitz-be-a-site-for-selfies" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">by no mean the first or last of its kind</a>, and represents an inevitable schism in memorial politics &ndash; as traumas recede from lived-past into historical contexts, how should cultural inheritance be balanced against personal experience? And how can this balance be articulated in the memorial space?</p><p>Currently, Auschwitz-Birkenau is memorialized in a variety of ways, but the structures themselves are not being actively preserved. In 1947, the Polish government established a memorial to all victims, and opened an exhibition of prisoner paraphernalia at Birkenau in 1955. Auschwitz I, the original death ca...</p>