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Jason De León and Hostile Terrain 94:The Land of Open Graves: Understanding the Current Politics of Migrant: Life and Death along the US/Mexico Border.
OPEN EVENT
17.09, 13:00
Aulaen and Vandrehallen
(across the street from Stakladen, near Statsbiblioteket)
Since the mid-1990s’, the U.S. federal government has relied on aborder enforcement strategy known as “Prevention Through Deterrence.”Using various security infrastructure and techniques of surveillance, this strategy funnels undocumented migrants towards remote and rugged terrain such as the Sonoran Desert of Arizona with the hope that mountains ranges, extreme temperatures, and other “natural” obstacles will deter people from unauthorized entry. Hundreds of people perish annually while undertaking this dangerous activity. Since 2009, the Undocumented Migration Project has used a combination of forensic, archaeological, and ethnographic approaches to understand the various forms of violence that characterize the social process of clandestine migration. In this presentation I focus on what happens to the bodies of migrants who die in the desert. I argue that the way that bodies decompose in this environment is a form of hidden political violence that has deep ideological roots and demonstrate how the post-mortem destruction of migrant corpses creates devastating forms of long-lasting trauma.
13:00 Jason De León Keynote
14:00 Roundtable Discussion (in Aulaen)
Carolina Sanchez Boe (Interacting Minds Centra), Laura McAtackney (Sustainable Heritage Management), Bill White (Archaeology), Hans Lauge Hansen (Communication and Culture), Steffen Köhn (Anthropology)
15:30-17:30 Exhibition Opening: (4 exhibits in Vandrehallen)
- 'Hostile Terrain 94’
- ‘A Tale of Two Islands’ Steffen Köhn
- ‘A Foot in the Door’ Cecil Marie Schou Pallesen
- ‘Digital Borders’ Carolina Sanchez Boe, Violeta Fernandez, Jessie Rodriguez
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Aulaen and Vandrehallen, Skibby, Denmark