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The Land of Open Graves

Jason De Leon

Why do hundreds of migrants die each year in the Arizona desert, and how did border policy come to rely on that desert as a deterrent?

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Author
Jason De Leon

Why read it

  • You will see how a policy of deterrence turns terrain into a weapon, and why that matters morally
  • You will hear individual migrants and families speak, so border deaths become people, not statistics
  • You will learn how the desert itself can erase the dead, so that families may never learn what happened

Who it is for

  • A reader who follows immigration debates and wants facts from the ground
  • Someone considering volunteer or humanitarian work near the border
  • A student of anthropology or public policy

Contents

  1. Subvention
  2. CALIFORNIA SERIES IN PUBLIC ANTHROPOLOGY
  3. Introduction
  4. BORDER STORIES
  5. CROSSING OVER
  6. DOCUMENTING THE UNDOCUMENTED
  7. DEPICTING VIOLENCE
  8. PART ONE
  9. This Hard Land
  10. CHAPTER 1
  11. Prevention Through Deterrence
  12. NOTES FROM A CRIME SCENE
  13. BONE DUST: RENDERING BARE LIFE
  14. OUT OF SIGHT
  15. HOSTILE TERRAIN
  16. CONNECTING THE DOTS
  17. CHAPTER 2
  18. Dangerous Ground
  19. HYBRID COLLECTIF
  20. DAY 1 (JUNE)
  21. DAY 2
  22. DAY 3
  23. DAY 4
  24. DAY 5
  25. UNMASKING DETERRENCE
  26. CHAPTER 3
  27. Necroviolence
  28. EXPERIMENTING WITH DEATH
  29. NECROPOLITICS
  30. NECROVIOLENCE
  31. TAPHONOMIES OF VIOLENCE
  32. DESERT TAPHONOMY
  33. DESERT NECROVIOLENCE
  34. PART TWO
  35. El Camino
  36. CHAPTER 4
  37. Memo and Lucho
  38. HISTORIAS
  39. BORDER MYTHS
  40. “NOTHING TO GO BACK TO”
  41. JUAN BOSCO
  42. CHAPTER 5
  43. Deported
  44. ENFORCEMENT WITH CONSEQUENCES
  45. BIENVENIDOS A NOGALES
  46. GIMME SHELTER
  47. LA LINEA
  48. WAITING ’ROUND
  49. CYCLES
  50. CHAPTER 6
  51. Technological Warfare
  52. “LEAVING TOMORROW”
  53. TWENTY-SIX DOLLARS’ WORTH OF GROCERIES AND A BIBLE
  54. TECHNOLOGICAL WARFARE
  55. TECNOLOGÍA
  56. FAILURE
  57. ESCAPE
  58. CHAPTER 7
  59. The Crossing
  60. EN TUCSON

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