The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail Volume 36

by Jason De León

Book Overview

In this gripping and provocative "ethnography of death," anthropologist and MacArthur "Genius" Fellow Jason De Le n sheds light on one of the most pressing political issues of our time--the human consequences of US immigration and border 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520282752
• ISBN13: 9780520282759
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"