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The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail

by Jason De Leon, Michael Wells
The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail

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ISBN13: 9780520282759
ISBN10: 0520282752



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In his gripping and provocative debut, 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 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.

Drawing on the four major fields of anthropology, De León uses an innovative combination of ethnography, archaeology, linguistics, and forensic science to produce a scathing critique of “Prevention through Deterrence,” the federal border enforcement policy that encourages migrants to cross in areas characterized by extreme environmental conditions and high risk of death. For two decades, this policy has failed to deter border crossers while successfully turning the rugged terrain of southern Arizona into a killing field.

In harrowing detail, De León chronicles the journeys of people who have made dozens of attempts to cross the border and uncovers the stories of the objects and bodies left behind in the desert.

The Land of Open Graves will spark debate and controversy.

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"De Leon's text is remarkable in its use of mixed and novel methods, alongside an honest discussion of the reasoning and motiviations that inspire his work." Migration Studies

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"De León confronts us with a vivid indictment of the killing fields on the US-Mexico border and reveals the brutality of global inequality in all its goriness and intimate suffering. A self-described refugee from archaeology, De León is revitalizing the field of anthropology by blowing apart the traditional subdisciplinary boundaries. With no holds barred, he offers new paths for theory, methods, and public anthropology." Philippe Bourgois, author of Righteous Dopefiend and In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio

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"Jason De León has written a remarkable book. I know of no other ethnography of life and death on the borderlands that is more moving, theoretically ambitious, or powerful than this eagerly awaited work." María Elena García, author of Making Indigenous Citizens: Identities, Education, and Multicultural Development in Peru

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Jason De León is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan and Director of the Undocumented Migration Project, a long-term anthropological study of clandestine border crossings between Mexico and the United States. His academic work has been featured in numerous media outlets, including National Public Radio, the New York Times Magazine, Al Jazeera magazine, The Huffington Post, and Vice magazine. In 2013, De León was named a National Geographic Emerging Explorer.

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Victoria , June 13, 2018 (view all comments by Victoria)
This book is a must read for anyone who lives in the United States or in any way benefits from all the varieties of work that undocumented immigrants from Central and South America do in this country. I think it is one of the most important books that we can read today. Jason de Leon and Mike Wells have done amazing work in capturing some of the stories of those who try to cross the US-Mexico border, and leave you thinking about how many more variations of these stories exist and can never be told because their protagonists were swallowed up by the desert. They delve deep into how the desert has been "recruited" by the politics of preventing unauthorized migrantion and is a key player in the trauma of a border crossing - successful or not. The book is at times harrowing and hard to think about, and at times intensely intimate, highlighting the shared humanity in all of us, no matter our background or legal status. These are hard truths that need to be known, and these are important stories to hear to put some faces onto those numbers of people referred to so dehumanizingly as "the illegals". I was methodologically impressed by de Leon's combination of archaeology and ethnography, of these two distinct types of fieldwork, that make this book particularly stand out. Thank you to all the work of the Undocumented Migrant Project to help provide a platform for these stories and voices to be heard. Thank you to all the undocumented migrants who do difficult work here in the US.

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ISBN:
9780520282759
Binding:
Trade Paperback
Publication date:
10/23/2015
Publisher:
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
Series info:
California Public Anthropology
Pages:
384
Height:
.90IN
Width:
6.00IN
Thickness:
.75
Series Number:
36
Series Volume:
36
Author:
Jason De Leon
Photographer:
Michael Wells

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