This course will examine how memory frames individual and community experiences in contexts of migration, displacement, erasure and communal formations, especially in relation to logics of order, policing, and projects of citizenship and institutionalization. It is a collaboration and dialogue between academic and grassroots community workers, with a commitment to learning beyond the space of the university. It asks: who participates in memory making and unmaking? and how do they do it in contexts of family separation, dispossession, erasure of language, uprootedness and community defense alongside the threat, as well as justification, of State violence? We will explore how memory is practiced in migrant communities in NYC crossed by processes of border violence, ‘undocumentation’ and surveillance, imperialism, criminalization and tokenization. We will discuss the connective tissue between memory and belonging in relation to migrant communities in public, private, and translocal spaces. Through the examination of memory, place and territory, we will learn the role of memory work as a living culture, a tool for justice, repair, solidarity, and inter-community formation. Students will participate in exercises of memory transmission, considering where and how memory is located, how it manifests, its relationship to the work of forgetting, and how mobility across borders (or lack thereof) shapes individual and collective processes of identifying, narrating, understanding and imagining differing temporal experiences.