Focused on immigrant communities in NYC, this course 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, and uprootedness 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. Site visits include: the Queens Museum as the former site for the United Nations, where the decision for the partition of Palestine was made; community spaces in Jackson Heights and Corona, Queens; Hart Island, a former prison and a place of burial for unclaimed, deceased New Yorkers. Through these site visits we will examine the role of memory as a living culture, a tool for justice, repair, solidarity, and community formation. Course materials include films, photography, poetry, art, literature and archives alongside academic texts. A core aspect of the course will focus on the ethics and practices of observing, participating, accompanying, listening to, and thinking with communities, ecosystems and beings in spaces that we might not be familiar with or directly connected to.