A5084098308- Migration, Refugees, and Integration
- Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies
- Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Latin American and Latino Studies
- Migration, Health, Geopolitics, Historical Geography
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation
- Global Security and Public Health
- Diaspora, migration, transnational identity
- Sex work and related issues
- Cross-Border Cooperation and Integration
- Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
- Crafts, Textile, and Design
- Archaeology and Natural History
- Fashion and Cultural Textiles
- Canadian Policy and Governance
- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Latin American history and culture
- Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research
- Trauma and Emergency Care Studies
- Migration, Education, Indigenous Social Dynamics
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Border Security and International Relations
University of California, Los Angeles
2020-2023
Lakeland Regional Medical Center
2022
Regional Health
2022
UCLA Health
2021-2022
Hawaii Pacific University
2021
Colby College
2021
Partners In Health
2021
Jensen Hughes (United States)
2021
University of California, Berkeley
2021
Princeton University
2021
ABSTRACT Since the mid‐1990s, heightened U.S. border security in unauthorized crossing areas near urban ports of entry has shifted undocumented migration toward remote regions such as Sonoran Desert Arizona, where is more penetrable but conditions are difficult. Subsequently, a complex smuggling industry developed Northern Mexico that profits from helping migrants cross desert on foot to enter United States undetected. now well‐established social process whereby items dark clothes and water...
Since the late 1990s, unauthorized migrants attempting to cross Sonoran Desert of Arizona have been relying on a unique set material culture evade Border Patrol, as well prevent and treat injuries during crossing process. Some media academic attention has focused hundreds who die each year desert border crossings, but little focus paid non-lethal (e.g. blisters dehydration) that thousands people sustain annually. Using combination ethnographic archaeological data, author argues...
Abstract Since 1998, over 5500 people have died while attempting to cross the U . S .– M exico border without authorization. These deaths primarily occured in Arizona desert. Despite high volume of deaths, little experimental work has been conducted on onoran D esert taphonomy. In this study, pig carcasses were used as proxies for human remains and placed different depositional contexts (i.e., direct sunlight shade) that replicate typical sites migrant death. Decomposition was documented...
Abstract The Alien Transfer Exit Programme ( ATEP ) is a US deportation strategy created in 2008 whereby migrants are returned to border regions of Mexico distant from their initial place apprehension. goal this geographically separate coyotes [paid crossing guide], who often waiting for them Mexico, an attempt discourage people attempting additional crossings. official government stance concerning programme that it both effective at deterring migration and protects abusive “force” cross the...
Each year hundreds of thousands people attempt to enter the United States from Mexico without authorization by crossing Sonoran Desert on foot or using false identification at ports entry. During this process, actively construct, contest, and obfuscate a multiplicity identities through various forms material culture including clothing, hygiene cosmetic products, paperwork. These include undocumented border crosser, citizens countries (e.g., US Mexico), with no identification. Those charged...
Recognizing that archaeologies of the contemporary past are inherently political, this paper examines ways in which definition and classification sites plays into archaeological praxis US-Mexico borderlands southern Arizona. Fundamentally, our seeks to organize spatial material data collected by Undocumented Migration Project (UMP) as a methodological step creating knowledge about processes experiences undocumented migration across Sonoran Desert. At same time, we acknowledge exists within...
Political, economic, and climatic upheaval can result in mass human migration across extreme terrain search of more humane living conditions, exposing migrants to environments that challenge tolerance. An empirical understanding the biological stresses associated with these migrations will play a key role development social, political, medical strategies for alleviating adverse effects risk death. We model physiological stress undocumented commonly traversed section southern border United...
This paper examines how mapping technology is central to the operation of United States Border Patrol security apparatus on US/Mexico Border, and explores very same can be used in critique this project. Drawing concept counter-mapping, we use spatial data collected by Undocumented Migration Project – a long-term anthropological project aimed at understanding various elements violent social process clandestine migration between Latin America ideology PTD technological conditions its production.
Massive infrastructures of transportation and border security, designed to control flows people things, dominate the contemporary US–Mexico border. Together, these material projects work inscribe hegemonic processes neoliberal capitalism national sovereignty onto physical landscape into everyday life, giving them an aura inevitability permanence. Using archaeology, we challenge this narrative by exploring counter-infrastructures developed marginal communities in borderlands – including...
Abstract Recent works by trans and nonbinary poets, including Oliver Baez Bendorf, Jos Charles, jayy dodd, Joshua Jennifer Espinoza, Paige Lewis, Danez Smith, gesture to a new mode of trans-confessional poetry. Trans poets practice naming as form self-indulgence, names pronouns are poetry—following Audre Lorde's articulation—read into the world give it shape. In practices poetry, self-indulgences also demands made another, name or unexpected pronoun asking for an affirmative repetition,...