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DOI | 10.1177/1469605316673171 |
Migrant memento mori and the geography of risk | |
Soto, Gabriella | |
通讯作者 | Soto, Gabriella |
来源期刊 | JOURNAL OF SOCIAL ARCHAEOLOGY |
ISSN | 1469-6053 |
EISSN | 1741-2951 |
出版年 | 2016 |
卷号 | 16期号:3页码:335-358 |
英文摘要 | Undocumented migrants entering the United States on foot through southern Arizona face extreme uncertainty and risk in their endeavor. The forces of decay and erasure experienced by migrants and the things they carry ensure the rapid disappearances of the tracesprimary material evidenceof this already invisible and precarious social movement as it unfolds. Playing a large role in this erasure is U.S. border security policy, which routes migrants into remote spaces where their experiences are hidden and where they are likely to become lost, to become hurt, and die. The environment of Arizona’s Sonoran Desert rapidly decays both objects and human bodies when people die en route, where migrant death is as high per capita as it has ever been. When discovered by land managers, investigators, or others, the things migrants leave behind and their bodies after death are actively removed from the landscape. Remarkable within this context of erasure are the semi-permanent and deliberately placed vernacular shrines, which mark migrants’ engagement with risk. The evocative nature of shrines inspires their preservation and curation by non-migrants who encounter them. As shrine sites directly engage with the risks migrants face, because of their sacred aura, and because they uniquely persevere in the harsh desert landscape, these sites serve as memento mori. Tethered in place, they become physical and emotional points of reference for navigating a landscape characterized by risk and uncertainty. |
英文关键词 | Undocumented migration US-Mexico border memento mori risk possibility shrines erasure |
类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | USA |
收录类别 | SSCI ; AHCI |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000390003900004 |
WOS关键词 | BORDER-CROSSING DEATHS ; MATERIALITY ; ARIZONA ; MEXICO ; ENFORCEMENT ; ARCHAEOLOGY ; LANDSCAPES |
WOS类目 | Anthropology ; Archaeology |
WOS研究方向 | Anthropology ; Archaeology |
来源机构 | University of Arizona |
资源类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/194742 |
作者单位 | Univ Arizona, Sch Anthropol, POB 210030, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Soto, Gabriella. Migrant memento mori and the geography of risk[J]. University of Arizona,2016,16(3):335-358. |
APA | Soto, Gabriella.(2016).Migrant memento mori and the geography of risk.JOURNAL OF SOCIAL ARCHAEOLOGY,16(3),335-358. |
MLA | Soto, Gabriella."Migrant memento mori and the geography of risk".JOURNAL OF SOCIAL ARCHAEOLOGY 16.3(2016):335-358. |
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