Alfredo Garcia Garza

Grounded in the fields of Existential Anthropology and History of Religions, Alfredo García Garza uses an ethnographic methodology, driven by a phenomenological orientation, to examine transnational human existence across the Río Bravo. Through his research, he seeks to understand how migrants recover from ongoing political and spiritual violence in the Texas-México borderlands. The renowned magico-religious healer and miracle worker, el Niño Fidencio, thus appears at the center of his research. Overall, García Garza’s work demonstrates the fundamental role that Fidencio, and his ritual specialists, play in the migrants’ quest to heal from the violent yet mundane events that constitute life in the US-México borderlands.