Migration and Mortality - Social Death, Dispossession, and Survival in the Americas

"This book uses theories of social death and the construction of lives as disposable across legal, public health, criminal, carceral, media, labor, and medical arenas to examine the fatal stakes of migration policy and practice for migrants crossing the U.S. southern border"--

About the author

Jamie Longazel is an Associate Professor of Law & Society at John Jay College and is on the International Migration Studies faculty at the Graduate Center, CUNY. He is the author of Undocumented Fears: Immigration and the Politics of Divide and Conquer in Hazleton, Pennsylvania (Temple).  Miranda Cady Hallett is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Human Rights Center Research Fellow at the University of Dayton.

Product details

• Authors: Jamie (EDT)/ Hallett Longazel
• Assisted by: Miranda Cady Hallett (Editor), Jamie Longazel (Editor)
• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9781439919781
• ISBN: 978-1-4399-1978-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories