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The Land of Open Graves is a book by anthropologist Jason De León with photographs by Michael Wells. The book examines the human consequences of United States immigration policy. Using research methods from all four subfields of anthropology, De León sheds light on the lives (and deaths) of the thousands of migrants who cross the US border ...
Oct 23, 2015 · The Land of Open Graves reveals the suffering and deaths that occur daily in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona as thousands of undocumented migrants attempt to cross the border from Mexico into the United States.
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The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail on JSTOR. Jason De León. With photographs by Michael Wells. Series Editor: Robert Borofsky. Series: Volume: 36. Copyright Date: 2015. Edition: 1. Published by: University of California Press. Pages: 384. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctv1xxvch. Select all.
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“The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail” is the culmination of six years of ethnographic, archaeological, and forensic research on the social process of undocumented migration between Latin America and the United States that Jason De León conducted between 2009 and 2015.
May 18, 2023 · A book by Jason de León that examines the human rights violations and environmental dangers faced by undocumented migrants in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona. Based on ethnography, archaeology, linguistics, and forensic science, the book critiques the US border enforcement policy that turns the desert into a killing field.
About the Book. In this gripping and provocative “ethnography of death,” anthropologist and MacArthur "Genius" Fellow Jason De León sheds light on one of the most pressing political issues of our time—the human consequences of US immigration and border policy.
Oct 1, 2015 · The Land of Open Graves reveals the suffering and deaths that occur daily in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona as thousands of undocumented migrants attempt to cross the border from Mexico into the United States.
