Sociopolitics of Migrant Death and Repatriation
Perspectives from Forensic Science
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Beschreibung
As scholars have by now long contended, global neoliberalism and the violence associated with state restructuring provide key frameworks for understanding flows of people across national boundaries and, eventually, into the treacherous terrains of the United States borderlands. The proposed volume builds on this tradition of situating migration and migrant death within broad, systems-level frameworks of analysis, but contends that there is another, perhaps somewhat less tidy, but no less important sociopolitical story to be told here.
Through examination of how forensic scientists define, navigate, and enact their work at the frontiers of US policy and economics, this book joins a robust body of literature dedicated to bridging social theory with bioarchaeological applications to modern day problems.
This volume is based on deeply and critically reflective analyses, submitted by individual scholars, wherein they navigate and position themselves as social actorsembedded within and, perhaps partially constituted by, relations of power, cultural ideologies, and the social structures characterizing this moment in history.
Each contribution addresses a different variation on themes of power relations, production of knowledge, and reflexivity in practice. In sum, however, the chapters of this book trace relationships between institutions, entities, and individuals comprising the landscapes of migrant death and repatriation and considers their articulation with sociopolitical dynamics of the neoliberal state.As scholars have by now long contended, global neoliberalism and the violence associated with state restructuring provide key frameworks for understanding flows of people across national boundaries and, eventually, into the treacherous terrains of the United States borderlands. The proposed volume builds on this tradition of situating migration and migrant death within broad, systems-level frameworks of analysis, but contends that there is another, perhaps somewhat less tidy, but no less important sociopolitical story to be told here.
Through examination of how forensic scientists define, navigate, and enact their work at the frontiers of US policy and economics, this book joins a robust body of literature dedicated to bridging social theory with bioarchaeological applications to modern day problems.
This volume is based on deeply and critically reflective analyses, submitted by individual scholars, wherein they navigate and position themselves as social actors embeddedwithin and, perhaps partially constituted by, relations of power, cultural ideologies, and the social structures characterizing this moment in history.
Each contribution addresses a different variation on themes of power relations, production of knowledge, and reflexivity in practice. In sum, however, the chapters of this book trace relationships between institutions, entities, and individuals comprising the landscapes of migrant death and repatriation and considers their articulation with sociopolitical dynamics of the neoliberal state.Teasing out questions concerning the role of forensic science in humanitarian work, human rights advocacy, and transnational activism Describing migration processes in terms of “vertical borders” producing myriad and intersecting forms of physical and economic vulnerability. Brings to light the little-discussed reality that forensic scientists, like the migrants they seek to identify, perceive and interpret, operate within, and mediate sociopolitical processes of the state
Autor*in
Krista E. Latham
Themen in »Sociopolitics of Migrant Death and Repatriation«
forensic science perspectives on migrant death and repatriation US border policy and the changing “geography of death” forensic scientists in humanitarian work application of bioarchaeological science to current problems migrants as a “disposable underclass”