The Border and Its Bodies: The Embodiment of Risk Along the U.S.-México Line

(Part of the Amerind Studies in Anthropology Series)

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The Border and Its Bodies examines the impact of migration from Central America and M?xico to the United States on the most basic social unit possible: the human body. It explores the terrible toll migration takes on the bodies of migrants--those who cross the border and those who die along the way--and discusses the treatment of those bodies after their remains are discovered in the desert.

The increasingly militarized U.S.-M?xico border...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0816539472

ISBN13:9780816539475

Release Date:November 2019

Publisher:University of Arizona Press

Length:312 Pages

Weight:1.10 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"

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The Border and Its Bodies: The Embodiment of Risk Along the U.S.-México Line

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