Migration and mortality : social death, dispossession, and survival in the Americas / edited by Jamie Longazel and Miranda Cady Hallett.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Longazel, Jamie, editor.

Hallett, Miranda Cady, 1976- editor.

EBSCOhost.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immigrants--United States--Social conditions.

Immigrants.

Emigration and immigration.

Social aspects.

Central Americans.

Social conditions.

Immigrants--Health and hygiene.

United States.

Immigrants--Health and hygiene--United States.

Central Americans--United States--Social conditions.

Marginality, Social--United States.

Marginality, Social.

United States--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

United States--Emigration and immigration--Health aspects.

Central America--Emigration and immigration--Social aspects.

Central America.

Central America--Emigration and immigration--Health aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Murder it remains: migration, parasitic violence, and mortality / Miranda Cady Hallett and Jamie Longazel

Death by enclosure: human rights organizations, migrant fatalities, and the delimitation of the global commons / Joseph Nevins

Living and dying in El Norte: the framing of Maya migration / Alicia Ivonne Estrada

Proprietors of death: an ethnography of the 2019 San Antonio Border Security Expo / Marianne Madoré and Nicholas Rodrigo

Anonymous brown bodies: the productive power of the deadly U.S.-Mexico border / Nicholas De Genova

Detention economies: commodifying social death / Deirdre Conlon and Nancy Hiemstra

Heat-related illness and death among migrant farmworkers: dispatches from the Girasoles study / Nathan J. Mutic and Linda A. McCauley

Morbidity and mortality in immigrant narratives: a public health perspective on state violence, social exclusion and experiences of harm among deportable immigrants / Daniel L. Stageman and Shirley P. Leyro

Death and disabilities in divergent deportation contexts: revisiting the Hispanic epidemiological paradox / Juan M. Pedroza and Pil H. Chung

The dead and living dead: legal violence and undocumented kidney failure patients in Atlanta, Georgia / Nolan Kline

Expanding exclusion: migration, asylum, and transnational death in Mexico and the United States / Jared P. Van Ramshorst

Better in jail there than dead here: deportation and (social) death in Honduras / Amelia Frank-Vitale

Miskitu labor and immigrant struggles: against U.S. anti-Central American policies of social death / Karina Alma

A politics of survival / Abby C. Wheatley

Death in detention: pandemic, loss, and social mobilization / Anna M. Babel with Miranda Cady Hallett and Jamie Longazel.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.

Other Format:

Print version: Migration and mortality

ISBN:

9781439919798

1439919798

Publisher Number:

40030692293

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