The Border and Its Bodies: The Embodiment of Risk Along the U.S.-México Line

Book Overview

The Border and Its Bodies examines the impact of migration from Central America and M?xico to the United States on the most basic social unit possible: the human body. It explores the terrible toll migration takes on the bodies of migrants--those who cross the border and those who die along the way--and discusses the treatment of those bodies after their remains are discovered in the desert.

The increasingly militarized U.S.-M?xico border...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816548498
• ISBN13: 9780816548491
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"