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

"In his gripping and provocative debut, anthropologist Jason De Leon 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 Arizo...

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Online Access:Electronic book from Proquest Ebook Central
Main Author: De León, Jason, 1977- (Author)
Corporate Author: Proquest Ebook Central.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
©2015.
Series:California series in public anthropology ; 36.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part one : This hard land. Prevention through deterrence
  • Dangerous ground
  • Necroviolence
  • Part two : El Camino. Memo and Lucho
  • Deported
  • Technological warfare
  • The crossing
  • Part three : Perilous terrain. Exposure
  • You can't leave them behind
  • Maricela
  • We will wait until you get here
  • Epilogue.