Migration and mortality : social death, dispossession, and survival in the Americas

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

"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"--

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Longazel, Jamie (Editor), Hallett, Miranda Cady, 1976- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2021.
Subjects:
Immigrants > United States > Social conditions.
Immigrants > Health and hygiene > United States.
Central Americans > United States > Social conditions.
Marginality, Social > United States.
Central Americans > Social conditions
Emigration and immigration > Health aspects
Emigration and immigration > Social aspects
Immigrants > Health and hygiene
Immigrants > Social conditions
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 > Emigration and immigration > Health aspects.
Central America
United States
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Description
Summary:"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"--
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781439919798
1439919798
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.

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