Fall 2015

Honors 310: Migrant Deaths and the US/Mexico Border

2:00-3:15 Tuesdays and Thursdays
Music Bldg Room 204
Dr. Victor Braitberg
Slonaker House Rm 211
Office Hours: Monday 1-3 and by appointment
Office Phone: 621-0175
Email: victorb@email.arizona.edu
From 1994 to 2015, more than 6,500 bodies have been recovered from the USMexico Borderlands. While the border with Mexico is 1,933 miles long, the majority
of these deaths have occurred in the Sonoran desert of Southern Arizona; many of
them just an hours drive from the University of Arizona campus. It may be
tempting to view these deaths as the fatal confluence of risky choices made by
individuals and a harsh, unforgiving terrain. What such a view fails to consider
however are the social, political, and economic factors that shape both the
individual choices of border-crossers and the border enforcement policies of the US
government which rely on tactics that force migrants to take exceptionally
dangerous routes into remote areas.
Taking a broad interdisciplinary and cross-national perspective on migrant deaths
and the US-Mexico border, this course will provide students with the necessary
background for understanding the political, economic, social, and cultural forces
that have converged to create structural vulnerabilities leading to the deaths of
thousands of undocumented migrants in Southern Arizona. While the focus of the
course will be on migrant deaths in the US-Mexico border region, we will devote
some time and attention to unauthorized migrants who have perished in their
attempt to enter the EU border region by way of the Mediterranean Sea.
Drawing on scholarship from the fields of anthropology, history, political science,
sociology, demography, criminology, critical legal studies, immigration studies,
international studies, and policy studies, we will explore the following questions:

How have the interactions between nation-states and capitalism shaped and
defined patterns of emigration and immigration over time?
What are the socioeconomic, cultural, and political factors that have shaped
and defined unauthorized migration over time?
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What impact have trade and immigration policies had on border enforcement
policies and strategies over time?
How do immigration and border enforcement policies and practices victimize
unauthorized migrants?
Who benefits economically and politically from current immigration and
border enforcement policies and practices?
What are the symbolic functions of border enforcement?
What are the similarities and differences between patterns of unauthorized
migration to the US and the EU?
What are the similarities and differences between the responses by
authorities in the US and the EU to unauthorized migration and migrant
deaths?
How have human-rights and humanitarian groups responded to migrant
deaths in the US and in Europe?

This seminar also has a practicum where students will volunteer 3 hours per week
with one of the following organizations in Tucson whose mission is to address the
humanitarian needs and human rights of unauthorized migrants: No More Deaths,
Samaritans, The Colibri Center for Human Rights, Humane Borders, Mariposas Sin
Fronteras, and Derechos Humanos.
Throughout the semester we will meet with government agents and officials, staff
and volunteers from NGOs, forensic scientists, lawyers, journalists and others who
have been directly involved with studying and/or attempting to address the
suffering of undocumented migrants. Additionally, we will have the opportunity to
meet either in person or by Skype many of the authors of the articles and book
chapters that we will be reading.
RECOMMENDED BOOK (Available from online booksellers like Amazon)
Peter Andreas (2009) Border Games: Policing the US-Mexico Divide, 2 nd Edition.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press
REQUIRED ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS (Will be made available through our
D2L site)
GRADES
Family Immigration History
200 pts | 20%
D2L Posts
300 pts | 30%
Presentation
100 pts | 10%
Practicum Journal
200 pts | 20%
Final Paper
200 pts | 20%
Total: 1000pts
A = (1000-900)
B = (890-800)
C = (790-700)
D = (690-600)
F = (below 590)

COURSE OBJECTIVES
Increased understanding of the social, political, economic, and cultural forces
that have shaped immigration patterns and law enforcement along the USMexico border.
Increased understanding of the social, political, economic, and cultural forces
that have contributed to the deaths of undocumented migrants.
Increased understanding of the human rights dimension of migration along
the US-Mexico Border and the EU.
Increased understanding of the human rights dimension of identifying
deceased and missing migrants along the US-Mexico Border and the EU.
Enhanced ability to apply insights from historical and social science
scholarship to understand contemporary problems pertaining to immigration,
law enforcement, and human rights along the US-Mexico border.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
Define the nation-state and discuss its social, cultural, and political-economic
dimensions.
Define capitalism and discuss its social, cultural, and political-economic
dimensions.
Identify and distinguish between major political-economic events that have
shaped the US-Mexico border from the 19th to the 21st centuries.
Identify and discuss the social, cultural, and political-economic dimensions of
the push and pull factors shaping patterns of immigration from Mexico
and Central America to the USA.
Identify and discuss the social, cultural, and political-economic dimensions
shaping patterns of US immigration law and border enforcement policies and
tactics.
Identify and discuss the human rights dimension of immigration and border
enforcement.
Describe and discuss the mission and operations of NGOs that seek to protect
the human rights of unauthorized migrants.
ENGAGEMENT
This course is an Engaged Learning course in which you will participate in significant
experiential learning and reflection designed to prepare you to apply skills and
knowledge to the types of problems you may encounter beyond the classroom. If
you earn a grade of C or better, you will earn the notation Engaged Learning
Experience: Completed on your UA transcript. The completion of this course will
also appear on your Student Engagement Record in UAccess.
This course has been designated with the following Engaged Learning attributes:

Engagement Activity: Community Partnership

Engagement Competency: Civic & Community Responsibility

COURSE ACTIVITIES AND ASSESSMENT (Rubrics for all course activities will be
posted to D2L at least two weeks prior to the assignment due date)
FAMILY IMMIGRATION HISTORY 20% Of Grade (200PTS)
5-7 page research paper that will be about the immigration history of your family.
You will document how your family ended up in the US, where they came from,
details of their journey from their homeland to the US, and how they survived
economically when they first arrived. You will identify the push factorswhy they
leftand the pull factorswhat attracted them to the US. You will also identify
the relevant emigration and immigration policies that were in place at the time as
well as the relevant political and economic contexts of their departure and their
arrival. This assignment will be due by the third week of classes.
D2L DISCUSSION 15% of Grade (15 x 20PTS =300 PTS)
D2L discussion prompts will be posted on Fridays and will be due by 11:00PM on
Sundays. The first response will be due August 30 th and the last will be due
December 6. Prompts may be instructor or student generated and will be based on
readings, films, class discussion, practicums, fieldtrips, and/or current events
relevant to the themes and topics of the course.
PRESENTATION 15% of Grade (150 PTS)
Once during the semester you will lead class discussion by summarizing the reading
and providing the class with questions that will stimulate discussion. This will begin
on the 3rd week of classes.
PRACTICUM JOURNAL 20% of Grade (200 PTS)
For every three hours of time devoted to your practicum you should write at least
one double-spaced page describing your practicum experience and how it relates to
our readings, films, and/or class discussions. There will be 13 files in the drop box
labeled practicum journal. Each file corresponds to a week beginning with the 3 rd
week of classes which is when you are expected to start volunteering with an
organization or group that provides legal and/or humanitarian services to
undocumented migrants. Note that throughout the semester you can volunteer
with more than one organization. You should upload your notes to the folder that
corresponds to the date when you completed at least three hours of service. The
number of pages will vary according to the amount of time that you spend each
week on your practicum. Some weeks you may have 0 hours and others you may
have 6 or 9 hours. Note that you will need to spend a total of 45 hours to receive
full credit for the practicum journal. To receive full credit, however, each entry
should address all of the following questions with specific examples where
applicable:
1. The name of the organization(s) and the contact information for the person
you worked with.
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2. The activities and/or services you performed and approximately the amount
of time that you spent on each activity.
3. A discussion of the role of the activity or service in relation to the mission of
the organization and the services that it provides to undocumented migrants.
4. How this activity relates to challenges faced by the organization.
5. How your activities relate to the broader social, political, and economic
challenges faced by undocumented migrants and the groups that are striving
to address their needs.
6. What you found personally rewarding or challenging about the tasks that you
were engaged in.
7. How the activity enriched, complemented, complicated, and/or challenged
what you have been learning in class.

FINAL PAPER 20% of Grade (200 PTS)

This will be a research paper between 10-15 pages in length that will be based on a
topic that has been approved by the instructora list of topics will be provided.
Your paper will be based on the scholarship that we will be reading during the
semester as well as your own original research which will be partly based on your
practicum. A rough draft will be due by week 10 and the final draft will be due on
the last day of class.
COURSE CONDUCT AND CAMPUS POLICIES (BE FAMILIAR WITH ALL CAMPUS
POLICIES)
1.
Please follow UA classroom rules regarding food and beverages in the
classroom.
2.
The topic of immigration can lead to heated discussions. The success of this
class will depend on how well we are able, as a group, to maintain an atmosphere of
mutual respect where we can share our thoughts and experiences without fear of
judgement. Please try to be open to diverse perspectives and learn from others
who may pose views that differ from your own.
3.
Rules on academic dishonesty will be strictly enforced. Plagiarism is literary
thievery, taking the words or ideas of another and representing them as your own.
Do not copy another students work, pull text from online sources, or turn in the
same work for this class that you have used in another class. All work turned in
must be original and specific to this course. Students who violate University rules on
scholastic dishonesty are subject to disciplinary penalties (e.g., failing grade or
removal from the University). Students are encouraged to share intellectual views
and discuss freely the principles and applications of course materials. However,
graded work/exercises must be the product of independent effort unless otherwise
instructed. As previously mentioned, students are expected to adhere to the UA
Code of Academic Integrity
http://deanofstudents.arizona.edu/codeofacademicintegrity .
Arrangements can be made if you have a physical challenge or condition that could
impair your participation and/or performance in this course. Please notify the
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instructor immediately if you need accommodation, and register with Disability

Resources so that I can make accommodation: Disability Resources Center, 1224
East Lowell Street, Tucson, AZ 85721, (520) 621-3268, FAX (520) 621-9423, email:
uadrc@email.arizona.edu, http://drc.arizona.edu/. You must register and request
that the Center or DRC send me official notification of your accommodations needs
as soon as possible. Please plan to meet with me by appointment or during office
hours to discuss accommodations and how my course requirements and activities
may impact your ability to fully participate. The need for accommodations must be
documented by Disability Resources.
The Arizona Board of Regents Student Code of Conduct, ABOR Policy 5-308,
prohibits threats of physical harm to any member of the University community,
including to ones self. See: http://policy.web.arizona.edu/~policy/threaten.shtml.
All student records will be managed and held confidentially.
http://www.registrar.arizona.edu/ferpa/default.htm
Information contained in the course syllabus, other than the grade and absence
policy, may be subject to change with advance notice, as deemed appropriate by
the instructor.

SCHEDULE
UNIT ONE: MIGRANT DEATHS AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Week
1-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Tue August 25 Introduction
Thu August 27 Visit with Dr. Bruce Anderson, Forensic Anthropologist,
Pima County Office of the Medical Examiner
Watch:
Who is Dayani Cristal? (Panopto)
Read: The Binational Migration Institute (2013) A Continued Humanitarian
Crisis at the Border: Undocumented Border Crosser Deaths Recorded by the
Pima County Office of the Medical Examiner, 1990-2012.
Week 2
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Tue Sept 1 Visit with Robin Reineke, Executive Director of The Colibri
Center for Human Rights.
Read: Daniel E. Martinez, Robin C. Reineke, Raquel Rubio-Goldsmith, and
Bruce O. Parks (2014) Structural Violence and Migrant Deaths in Southern
Arizona. Journal on Migration and Human Security, Volume 2, Number 4: 257286.

Thu Sept 3 Visit with representatives of humanitarian border

organizations (TBA)
Research the mission and activities of humanitarian groups in Southern
Arizona.
Week 3
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Tue Sept 8 Making Sense of Migrant Deaths
Read: Joseph Nevins (2014) A Matter of Life and Death: Human Rights at the
Boundaries of Immigration Control, 275-300. From: Lois Ann Lorentzen, Ed.
(2014) Hidden Lives and Human Rights in the United States: Understanding
the Controversies and Tragedies of Undocumented Immigration. Volume 1:
History, Theories, and Legislation. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger
Thu Sept 10 Unauthorized Migration in a Binational Context.
Read: Miguel Escobar Valdez (2014) Reflections on Immigration, Binational
policies and Human Rights Tragedies, 34-54 William Paul Simmons and Carol
Mueller Localizing Human Rights: The U.S.-Mexico Experience. Philadelphia,
PA: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Week
4-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Tue Sept 15 Border Deaths in the European Context
Read: Ruben Andersson (2015) Border Control is Out of Control
http://discoversociety.org/2015/02/01/border-c ontrol-is-out-of-control/
Read: Thomas Spijkerboer (2007) The Human Costs of Border Control
European Journal of Migration and Law, 9: 127-39.
Thu Sept 17 Border Deaths in a Global Context
Read: Leanne Weber and Sharon Pickering (2011) Ch. 1 Charting the Global
Frontier. Globalization and Borders: Death at the Global Frontier. Palgrave
Skype with Dr. Leanne Weber, Associate Professor, Criminology,
Monash University.
UNIT TWO: THE JOURNEYS OF UNAUTHORIZED MIGRANTS
Week
5-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Tue Sept 22 Anthropology of Migration: From Mexico to US
Read: Seth Holmes (2013) Introduction: Worth Risking Your Life? Fresh Fruit,
Broken Bodies: Migrant Farm Workers in the United States. Berkeley, CA:
University of California Press.
Thu Sept 24 Anthropology of Migration: From Africa to EU
Read: Ruben Andersson (2014) Introduction: The Illegality Industry at
Europes African Frontier, 1-22. Illegality, Inc: Clandestine Migration and the
Business of Bordering Europe. Berkeley, CA: University of California.
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Skype with Dr. Ruben Andersson, Postdoctoral Research Fellow,

Department of International Development and Civil Society and
Human Security Research Unit, London School of Economics and
Political Science.

Week 6
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Tue Sept 29 Unauthorized Migration and Structural Violence
Read: Wendy Vogt 2013 Crossing Mexico: Structural Violence and the
Commodification of Undocumented Central American Migrants. American
Ethnologist
Thu Oct 1 Discussion of Structural Violence.
Read: Jeremy Slack and Scott Whiteford (2011) Violence and Migration on the
Arizona-Sonora Border. Human Organization, Vol. 70, No 1: 11-21.
Watch: Crossing Arizona
UNIT THREE: THE HISTORY AND POLITICAL ECONOMY OF UNAUTHORIZED
MIGRATION
Week 7
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Tue Oct 6 Immigration and the History of Illegality
Read: Alan Wolfe (2006) Getting In. Review of Aristide Zolbergs A Nation by
Design: Immigration Policy in the Fashioning of America. The New Republic,
May 8, 30-37.
Read: Aviva Chomsky (2014) Ch. 1 Where Did Illegality Come From?, 23-39.
Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal. Boston, MA: Beacon.
Watch: El Norte
Thu Oct 8 History of Unauthorized Migration to the US
Read: Mae M. Ngai Undocumented Migration to the United States A History 124. From: Lois Ann Lorentzen, Ed. (2014) Hidden Lives and Human Rights in
the United States: Understanding the Controversies and Tragedies of
Undocumented Immigration. Volume 1: History, Theories, and Legislation.
Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger
Skype with Dr. Mae Ngai, Lung Family Professor of Asian American
Studies and Professor of History, Columbia University.
http://history.columbia.edu/faculty/Ngai.html

Week 8
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Tue Oct 13 Historical Political-Economy of the US Mexico Border
Read: Peter Andreas (2013) Border Wars and the Underside of Economic
Integration,291-329. Smuggler Nation: How Illicit Trade Made America.
Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press
Skype with Dr. Joseph Nevins, Associate Professor of Geography and
Chair of Earth Science and Geography, Vassar College
http://earthscienceandgeography.vassar.edu/bios/jonevins.html
Thu Oct 15 Discussion of Family Immigration Histories
Watch: Harvest of Loneliness
Week
9-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Tue Oct 20 Political Economy of Unauthorized Migration
Read: Josiah McC. Heyman 2012 Capitalism and US policy at the Mexican
border Dialectical Anthropology Vol. 36: 263-277
Skype with Dr. Josiah McC. Heyman, Director of The Center for
Interamerican and Border Studies, Professor of Anthropology, and
Endowed Professor of Border Trade Issues. University of Texas at El
Paso. http://faculty.utep.edu/Default.aspx?
alias=faculty.utep.edu/jmheyman
Thu Oct 22 Drivers of Mexican Migration
Read: David Bacon (2013) Ch 1 From Perote to Tar Heal, 1-40. From: The
Right to Stay Home: How US Policy Drives Mexican Migration. Boston:
Beacon.
Week 10
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Tue Oct 27 Neoliberalism and Migration
Read: Linda Green 2011 The Nobodies: Neoliberalism, Violence, and Migration
Medical Anthropology, Vol. 40, Issue 4: 366-385.
Thu Oct 29 Visit with Dr. Linda Green, Associate Professor of Anthropology
and Director of The Center for Latin American Studies, University of
Arizona.
Watch: The Other Side of Immigration
Saturday October 31st 8am-4pm
Possible Fieldtrip to Border Wall near Nogales Arizona as well as the virtual wall of
sensors, surveillance towers, and checkpoints. Led by Todd Miller, author of Border
Patrol Nation. http://www.citylights.com/book/?
GCOI=87286100874610&fa=author&person_id=16890
https://toddwmiller.wordpress.com/
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Read Excerpts from Todd Miller (2013) Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches from
the Front Lines of Homeland Security.

UNIT FOUR: THE DEADLY GAME OF BORDER ENFORCEMENT

Week
11-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Tue Nov 3 Symbolic Functions of Border Enforcement
Read: Peter Andreas (2009) Border Games: Policing the US-Mexico Divide, 2nd
Edition. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press

Thu Nov 5 Political Economy of Border Enforcement

Read: Peter Andreas (2009) Border Games: Policing the US-Mexico Divide, 2nd
Edition. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press
Week
12-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Tue Nov 10 Human Rights as Collateral Damage of Border Enforcement
Read: Timothy Dunn (2014) Immigration Enforcement at the U.S.-Mexico
Border: Where Human Rights and Citizenship Collide, 85-111. William Paul
Simmons and Carol Mueller Localizing Human Rights:The U.S.-Mexico
Experience. University of Pennsylvania Press
Skype with Dr. Timothy Dunn, Professor of Sociology, Salisbury
University.
Be sure to check out the UA conference on Paramilitarism in the Americas Men
with Guns: Cultures of Paramilitarism in the Modern Americas on Nov. 12 & 13,
organized by Professor Anne Garland Mahler in the Spanish and Portuguese
Dept. Dr. Dunn will be one of the speakers.

Thu Nov 12 Immigrant Illegalities and the Globalization of Structural

Violence
Read: Leanne Weber and Sharon Pickering (2011) Ch. 4 Structural Violence.
Globalization and Borders: Death at the Global Frontier. Palgrave
UNIT FIVE: CRIMMIGRATION AND THE MILITARY-IMMIGRATION-INDUSTRIAL
COMPLEX
Week
13-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Tue Nov 17 Crimmigration
Read: Cesar Cuauhtemoc Garcia Hernandez (2013) Creating Crimmigration.
Brigham Young University Law Review, Issue 6:1457-1516.
Skype with Cesar Cuauhtemoc Garcia Hernandez, Visiting Assistant
Professor, Sturm College of Law, University of Denver.

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Thu Nov 19 Visit to Operation Streamline proceedings United States

District Court, District of Arizona
Week
14-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Tue Nov 24 Human Costs of Criminalizing Immigration
Read: Daniel Martinez and Jeremy Slack (2013) What Part of Illegal Dont
You Understand? The Social Consequences of Criminalizing Unauthorized
Mexican Migrants in the United States. Social and Legal Studies, 1-17.
Skype with Dr. Daniel Martinez, Assistant Professor of Sociology,
George Washington University.
Week 15
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Tue Dec 1 Border-Military-Industrial Complex
Read: Karen Manges Douglas and Rogelio Saenz (2013) The Criminalization of
Immigrants and the Immigration-Industrial Complex. Daedalus Summer 2013,
Vol. 142, No. 3, Pages 199-227.

Week
16-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Tue Dec 8 Is the State Outside the Law?
Read: Raymond Michalowski and Lisa Hardy (2014) Victimizing the
Undocumented: Immigration Policy and Border Enforcement as State Crime
87-109. From: Dawn Rothe and David Kauziarch Eds. Towards a Victimology
of State Crime. Taylor and Francis.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Ruben Andersson (2014) Introduction: The Illegality Industry at Europes African
Frontier, 1-22. Illegality, Inc: Clandestine Migration and the Business of Bordering
Europe. Berkeley, CA: University of California.
Peter Andreas (2009) Border Games: Policing the US-Mexico Divide, 2 nd Edition.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press
Read: Peter Andreas (2013) Border Wars and the Underside of Economic
Integration,291-329. Smuggler Nation: How Illicit Trade Made America. Oxford, UK:
Oxford University Press
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David Bacon (2013) Ch 1 From Perote to Tar Heal, 1-40. From: The Right to Stay
Home: How US Policy Drives Mexican Migration. Boston: Beacon.
Zygmunt Bauman (2011) Collateral Damage. Cambridge,UK: Polity Books.
Zygmunt Bauman (2012) Wasted Lives. Cambridge, UK: Polity
The Binational Migration Institute (2013) A Continued Humanitarian Crisis at the
Border: Undocumented Border Crosser Deaths Recorded by the Pima County Office
of the Medical Examiner, 1990-2012.
Borderlands Autonomist Collective (2012) Resisting the Security-Industrial Complex:
Operation Streamline and the Militarization of the Arizona-Mexico Borderlands, 190208.Jenna M Loyd et al (2012) Beyond Walls and Cages: Prisons, Borders and Global
Crisis. University of Georgia Press.
Aviva Chomsky (2014) Ch. 1Where Did Illegality Come From? Ch. 2 Choosing to be
Undocumented
Undocumented: How Immigration Became Illegal. Boston, MA: Beacon.
Wayne A Cornelius (2001) Death at the Border: Efficacy and Unintended
Consequences of US Immigration Control Policy. Population and Development
Review 27 (4): 661-685.
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Roxanne Lynn Doty (2013) Bare Life: Border Crossing Deaths and Spaces of Moral
Alibi, 129-144. Julie A. Dowling and Jonathan Xavier Inda, Eds. Governing
Immigration Through Crime: A Reader. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford.
Katharine M. Donato and Amada Armenta (2011) What We Know About
Unauthorized Migration Annual Review of Sociology Vol. 37: 529-543
Robert Donnelly and Jacqueline Maria Hagan The Dangerous journey: Migrant
Smuggling from Mexico and Central America, Asia and the Caribbean, 71-106. From:
Lois Ann Lorentzen, Ed. (2014) Hidden Lives and Human Rights in the United States:
Understanding the Controversies and Tragedies of Undocumented Immigration.
Volume 1: History, Theories, and Legislation. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger
Timothy Dunn (2014) Immigration Enforcement at the U.S.-Mexico Border: Where
Human Rights
and Citizenship Collide, 85-111. William Paul Simmons and Carol Mueller Localizing
Human Rights:The U.S.-Mexico Experience. University of Pennsylvania Press
Walter Ewing (2014) Enemy Territory: Immigration Enforcement in the US-Mexico
Borderlands. Journal on Migration and Human Security, Volume 2, Number 3: 198222.

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Timothy Dunn (2009) Blockading the Border and Human Rights: The El Paso
Operation that Remade Immigration Enforcement. Austin,TX: University of Texas.
Mary D. Fan (2008) When Deterrence and Death Mitigation Fall Short: Fantasy and
Fetishes as Gap-Fillers in Border Regulation. Law and Society Review, Vol. 42, No. 4.
[Former UA honors student]
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Immigration Policies Destined to Fail. Sociology Compass 3/2: 295-309.
Cesar Cuauhtemoc Garcia Hernandez (2013) Creating Crimmigration. Brigham
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Josiah McC. Heyman 2012 Capitalism and US policy at the Mexican border
Dialectical Anthropology Vol 36: 263-277.
Josiah McC. Heyman (2014) Illegality and the U.S.-Mexico Border, 111-135. Dan
Kanstroom and Cecilia Menjivar, Eds. Constructing Illegality in America: Immigrant
Experiences, Critiques, and Resistance. Cambridge,UK: Cambridge University Press.
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CA: University of California Press.
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US Border Proscecutions, 1-81.
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Border
ACLU of San Diego
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habitual suffering in the Sonoran Desert, Journal of Material Culture, 1-25.

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Karen Manges Douglas and Rogelio Saenz (2013) The Criminalization of Immigrants
and the Immigration-Industrial Complex. Daedalus Summer 2013, Vol. 142, No. 3,
Pages 199-227
Daniel E. Martinez, Robin C. Reineke, Raquel Rubio-Goldsmith, and Bruce O. Parks
(2014) Structural Violence and Migrant Deaths in Southern Arizona. Journal on
Migration and Human Security, Volume 2, Number 4: 257-286.
Daniel Martinez and Jeremy Slack (2013) What Part of Illegal Dont You
Understand? The Social Consequences of Criminalizing Unauthorized Mexican
Migrants in the United States. Social and Legal Studies, 1-17.
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Understanding the Controversies and Tragedies of Undocumented Immigration.
Volume 1: History, Theories, and Legislation. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger
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Ed. (2014) Hidden Lives and Human Rights in the United States: Understanding the
Controversies and Tragedies of Undocumented Immigration. Volume 1: History,
Theories, and Legislation. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger
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Immigration Policy and Border Enforcement as State Crime 87-109. From: Dawn
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Francis.
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and Human Rights in the United States: Understanding the Controversies and
Tragedies of Undocumented Immigration. Volume 1: History, Theories, and
Legislation. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger
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Lois Ann Lorentzen, Ed. (2014) Hidden Lives and Human Rights in the United States:

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Understanding the Controversies and Tragedies of Undocumented Immigration.

Volume 1: History, Theories, and Legislation. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger
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