The land of open graves : living and dying on the migrant trail / Jason De Leon ; with photographs by Michael Wells.

"Anthropologist Jason De León sheds light on one of the most pressing political issues of our time--the human consequences of US immigration policy. The Land of Open Graves reveals the suffering and death that take place daily in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona as thousands of undocumented migran...

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Main Author: De León, Jason, 1977- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published:Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
©2015.
Series:California series in public anthropology ; 36.
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505 0 |a Prevention through deterrence -- Dangerous ground -- Necroviolence -- Memo and Lucho -- Deported -- Technological warfare -- The crossing -- Exposure -- You can't leave them behind -- Maricela -- We will wait until you get here. 
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