Marginalized and vulnerable individuals and communities often face multiple forms of violence--economic, cultural, physical, and psychological. How are these groups constructed as the Other, and how are these concepts circulated and naturalized? This panel discussion will examine a range of questions about these topics in order to explore the lived experiences of vulnerable communities: • What is the relationship of historical and economic processes to the creation of marginal communities? • Which cultural values are used to accommodate or reject vulnerable groups? • What strategies, values, and resources do different vulnerable groups summon as social critique, transformative discourse, or to carve out protective spaces?