《移民路上的生与死》【内容简介】
美墨绵延的边境线西部，是有着“不毛之地”之称的索诺拉沙漠，这里长期充当拉美无证移民的“走线”通道。高耸的隔离墙在此终结，闯过沙漠里一道道死亡关口，移民就能如愿成为美国非法劳动大军的一员。只不过，无数人命丧途中。人类学家杰森·德莱昂亲历沙漠移民路线、采访越境者，收集衣物和骸骨等物质遗留，沿途救助伤者，亲眼见证死亡。在他看来，沙漠是美国政府精心打造的异质集合体：诱导移民铤而走险，把脏活外包，借自然环境“洗白”自身。这片死寂大地充满着生命消逝的苦痛，而背后是两个世界巨大的经济鸿沟与难除的政治顽疾。
作者简介
杰森·德莱昂(JasonDeLeón,1977—)，美国加州大学洛杉矶分校人类学教授、奇卡诺和中美洲研究中心教授、科特森考古研究所主任。研究领域包括拉丁美洲移民、暴力理论、当代考古学等，是“无证迁移项目”的负责人。2017年凭借其在移民研究领域的突出成就获得美国麦克阿瑟奖。
译者简介
赖盈满，译者，伦敦政治经济学院科学哲学硕士，译有《山中最后一季》《天才的责任：维根斯坦传》《成功的反思》和《博学者与他们的时代》等作品。
Life and Death on the Migrant Road [Content Introduction]
To the west of the long border between the United States and Mexico is the Sonoran Desert, known as the "barren land", which has long served as a "route" for undocumented immigrants from Latin America. The towering wall ends here, and through the death gates of the desert, immigrants can become part of America's illegal labor force. Only, millions of people died on the way. Anthropologist Jason de Leon has traveled desert migration routes, interviewed border crossers, collected material remains such as clothing and bones, helped the wounded along the way, and witnessed death firsthand. In his view, the desert is a heterogeneous collection carefully created by the US government: inducing immigrants to take risks, outsource dirty work, and use the natural environment to "whitewash" themselves. This dead land is full of the pain of life lost, but behind the huge economic gap between the two worlds and the intractable political disease.
About the author
JasonDeLeon (1977 -) is a professor of anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, Professor of Chicano and Central American Studies, and director of the Curtson Institute of Archaeology. His research interests include Latin American migration, violence theory, and contemporary archaeology, and he is the director of the Undocumented Migration Project. In 2017, he was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship for his outstanding achievements in the field of immigration studies.
Translator's introduction
Yingman Lai is a translator with a Master of Philosophy of Science from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is the author of The Last Season in the Mountains, The Responsibility of Genius: A Biography of Wiggenstein, Reflections on Success and the Polygamist and Their Time.
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