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

by Jason De León

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death, and destruction produced by the hybrid collectif in the desert have not only increased since the start of Prevention Through Deterrence but have extended their traumatizing reach across the globe.

For those on the economic margins of Latin America, it is often only in death that they are claimed by governments.6

Sometimes, though, the hybrid collectif is interrupted before it can finish.

These recovered bodies show the marks of the everyday, yet hidden political violence used to secure the southern border of the United States.

the Sonoran Desert necroviolence that is engineered to be invisible.

phenomenon’s troubling impact on the “social, relational, and affective worlds” of the kids left behind.13