ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the caring and respectful processes of engagement with immigrants who seek a new place of belonging and a way to assert their cultural and economic contributions to larger socioeconomic processes that exclude or devalue them. Barbara J. Dilly engaged in participant observation research with Southeast Asian communities in a neighborhood garden in Omaha, Nebraska, in the United States. Dilly argues that the processes of building mutual relationships of trust and humility that align commitments and responsibilities create greater capacity for transformative action for both the researcher and community groups. This chapter further examines how accompaniment practices contribute to anthropology by strengthening and emboldening its caring practices of respecting human dignity in addressing the world’s problems.
