Absent and present: Biopolitics and the materiality of body counts on the US–Mexico border

As the deaths of undocumented migrants expose the violence of border security policies around the globe, a complicated politics emerges between bodily death and the ways in which the migrant association of decedents (dis)appears in vital records – even as many migrants physically disappear during th...

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Main Author: Soto, Gabriella (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage Publ. 2021
In: Journal of material culture
Year: 2021, Volume: 26, Issue: 1, Pages: 43-63
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B USA / Mexico / Boundary / Illegal immigration / Death / Statistics
RelBib Classification:KBQ North America
ZA Social sciences
ZB Sociology
ZC Politics in general
Further subjects:B Materiality
B Migration
B US–Mexico border
B Biopolitics
B forensic evidence
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