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

The Border and Its Bodies examines the impact of migration from Central America and México 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-...

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Other Authors: McGuire, Randall H. (Editor), Sheridan, Thomas E. (Editor)
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Published: University of Arizona Press 2019
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