The Land Of Open Graves by Jason De León
Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail
A forensic-ethnographic investigation into the human toll of U.S.-Mexico border enforcement that combines recovered bodies, personal effects, interviews, and fieldwork to document how policies like “prevention through deterrence” have funneled migrants into deadly desert terrain; the book reconstructs individual journeys, examines material traces and institutional practices, and interrogates how state violence, smuggling economies, silence, and humanitarian responses produce a landscape of death and dispossession while calling for moral and political accountability.
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- 2015
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- American
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- English
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