Jason De León
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 114956 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Jason De León |
| NOMBRES | Jason |
| APELLIDO | De León |
| FIRMA | DE LEÓN J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4365-5501 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 409 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2009 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Documenting the Disappeared
An installation in the exhibition State of Exception/Estado de Excepción displays hundreds of backpacks left behind by migrants crossing the Sonoran Desert, collected by Jason De León during his re
Counter-infrastructure in the US-Mexico borderlands
Massive infrastructures of transportation and border security, designed to control flows of people and things, dominate the contemporary US–Mexico border. Together, these material projects work to inscribe the hegemonic processes of neoliberal capitalism and national sovereignty onto the physical landscape and into everyday life, giving them an aura of inevitability and permanence. Using archaeology, we challenge this narrative by exploring the c…
Scales of Suffering in the US-Mexico Borderlands
The Border Wall Is a Metaphor
Calling Self-Indulgence
Recent works by trans and nonbinary poets, including Oliver Baez Bendorf, Jos Charles, jayy dodd, Joshua Jennifer Espinoza, Paige Lewis, and Danez Smith, gesture to a new mode of trans-confessional poetry. Trans poets practice naming as a form of self-indulgence, and trans names and pronouns are a form of poetry—following Audre Lorde's articulation—read into the world to give it new shape. In trans naming practices and poetry, self-indulgences ar…
The Land of Open Graves
In The Land of Open Graves, Jason De León brings to light the clandestine journeys of Central American migrants through the Sonoran Desert of Arizona. He combines ethnography, archaeology, and forensic science to expose the suffering and deaths that occur along this perilous route. De León argues that the desert itself, weaponized by the U.S. Border Patrol's "Prevention Through Deterrence" policy, acts as an agent of violence, pushing migrants in…
The Indecisive Moment
The Undocumented Migration Project (UMP) is a long-term anthropological study of clandestine migration from Latin America across the US-Mexico border that draws on ethnography, archaeology, and forensic science to understand various elements of this controversial social process. Since its inception, the UMP has used photography as a field method employed by both researchers and migrants themselves. Drawing from the work of the UMP, this chapter d…
Surveilling Surveillance
This paper examines how mapping technology is central to the operation of the United States Border Patrol security apparatus on the US/Mexico Border, and explores how the very same mapping technology can be used in critique this security project. Drawing on the concept of counter-mapping, we use spatial data collected by the Undocumented Migration Project – a long-term anthropological project aimed at understanding various elements of the violent…
What's in Your Bag
Profile
directs the Undocumented Migration Project (UMP).De León's research investigates the brutal world of clandestine border crossings between Mexico and the US, and he is currently documenting the lives of Honduran smugglers living in Mexico.His work sits at the intersection of ethnographic, visual, archaeological, and forensic approaches to understanding social processes
Photography In The House of Pakal
By the Time I Get to Arizona
Each year hundreds of thousands of people attempt to enter the United States from Mexico without authorization by crossing the Sonoran Desert on foot or using false identification at ports of entry. During this crossing process, people actively construct, contest, and obfuscate a multiplicity of identities through various forms of material culture including clothing, hygiene and cosmetic products, and identification paperwork. These identities in…
Sites of Contention
Recognizing that archaeologies of the contemporary past are inherently political, this paper examines the ways in which the definition and classification of sites plays into archaeological praxis in the US-Mexico borderlands of southern Arizona. Fundamentally, our classification of contemporary archaeological sites seeks to organize spatial and material data collected by the Undocumented Migration Project (UMP) as a methodological step in creatin…
Early Olmec obsidian trade and economic organization at San Lorenzo
The Efficacy and Impact of the Alien Transfer Exit Programme
The Alien Transfer Exit Programme ( ATEP ) is a US deportation strategy created in 2008 whereby migrants are returned to border regions of Mexico distant from their initial place of apprehension. The goal of this strategy is to geographically separate migrants from their coyotes [paid crossing guide], who are often waiting for them in Mexico, in an attempt to discourage people from attempting additional border crossings. The official government s…
Undocumented migration, use wear, and the materiality of habitual suffering in the Sonoran Desert
Since the late 1990s, unauthorized migrants attempting to cross the Sonoran Desert of Arizona have been relying on a unique set of material culture to evade Border Patrol, as well as prevent and treat injuries during the crossing process. Some media and academic attention has focused on the hundreds of migrants who die each year during desert border crossings, but little focus has been paid to the non-lethal injuries (e.g. blisters and dehydratio…
Better to Be Hot than Caught
Since the mid-1990s, heightened U.S. border security in unauthorized crossing areas near urban ports of entry has shifted undocumented migration toward remote regions such as the Sonoran Desert of Arizona, where security is more penetrable but crossing conditions are more difficult. Subsequently, a complex smuggling industry has developed in Northern Mexico that profits from helping migrants cross the desert on foot to enter the United States und…
Intermittent Domestic Lapidary Production during the Late Formative Period at Nativitas, Tlaxcala, Mexico
The Land of Open Graves
In The Land of Open Graves, Jason De León brings to light the clandestine journeys of Central American migrants through the Sonoran Desert of Arizona. He combines ethnography, archaeology, and forensic science to expose the suffering and deaths that occur along this perilous route. De León argues that the desert itself, weaponized by the U.S. Border Patrol's "Prevention Through Deterrence" policy, acts as an agent of violence, pushing migrants in…
Better to Be Hot than Caught
Since the mid-1990s, heightened U.S. border security in unauthorized crossing areas near urban ports of entry has shifted undocumented migration toward remote regions such as the Sonoran Desert of Arizona, where security is more penetrable but crossing conditions are more difficult. Subsequently, a complex smuggling industry has developed in Northern Mexico that profits from helping migrants cross the desert on foot to enter the United States und…
Early Olmec obsidian trade and economic organization at San Lorenzo
Undocumented migration, use wear, and the materiality of habitual suffering in the Sonoran Desert
Since the late 1990s, unauthorized migrants attempting to cross the Sonoran Desert of Arizona have been relying on a unique set of material culture to evade Border Patrol, as well as prevent and treat injuries during the crossing process. Some media and academic attention has focused on the hundreds of migrants who die each year during desert border crossings, but little focus has been paid to the non-lethal injuries (e.g. blisters and dehydratio…
Sites of Contention
Recognizing that archaeologies of the contemporary past are inherently political, this paper examines the ways in which the definition and classification of sites plays into archaeological praxis in the US-Mexico borderlands of southern Arizona. Fundamentally, our classification of contemporary archaeological sites seeks to organize spatial and material data collected by the Undocumented Migration Project (UMP) as a methodological step in creatin…
The Efficacy and Impact of the Alien Transfer Exit Programme
The Alien Transfer Exit Programme ( ATEP ) is a US deportation strategy created in 2008 whereby migrants are returned to border regions of Mexico distant from their initial place of apprehension. The goal of this strategy is to geographically separate migrants from their coyotes [paid crossing guide], who are often waiting for them in Mexico, in an attempt to discourage people from attempting additional border crossings. The official government s…
By the Time I Get to Arizona
Each year hundreds of thousands of people attempt to enter the United States from Mexico without authorization by crossing the Sonoran Desert on foot or using false identification at ports of entry. During this crossing process, people actively construct, contest, and obfuscate a multiplicity of identities through various forms of material culture including clothing, hygiene and cosmetic products, and identification paperwork. These identities in…
Surveilling Surveillance
This paper examines how mapping technology is central to the operation of the United States Border Patrol security apparatus on the US/Mexico Border, and explores how the very same mapping technology can be used in critique this security project. Drawing on the concept of counter-mapping, we use spatial data collected by the Undocumented Migration Project – a long-term anthropological project aimed at understanding various elements of the violent…
Scales of Suffering in the US-Mexico Borderlands
Counter-infrastructure in the US-Mexico borderlands
Massive infrastructures of transportation and border security, designed to control flows of people and things, dominate the contemporary US–Mexico border. Together, these material projects work to inscribe the hegemonic processes of neoliberal capitalism and national sovereignty onto the physical landscape and into everyday life, giving them an aura of inevitability and permanence. Using archaeology, we challenge this narrative by exploring the c…
Intermittent Domestic Lapidary Production during the Late Formative Period at Nativitas, Tlaxcala, Mexico
Calling Self-Indulgence
Recent works by trans and nonbinary poets, including Oliver Baez Bendorf, Jos Charles, jayy dodd, Joshua Jennifer Espinoza, Paige Lewis, and Danez Smith, gesture to a new mode of trans-confessional poetry. Trans poets practice naming as a form of self-indulgence, and trans names and pronouns are a form of poetry—following Audre Lorde's articulation—read into the world to give it new shape. In trans naming practices and poetry, self-indulgences ar…
Intermittent Domestic Lapidary Production during the Late Formative Period at Nativitas, Tlaxcala, Mexico
Better to Be Hot than Caught
Since the mid-1990s, heightened U.S. border security in unauthorized crossing areas near urban ports of entry has shifted undocumented migration toward remote regions such as the Sonoran Desert of Arizona, where security is more penetrable but crossing conditions are more difficult. Subsequently, a complex smuggling industry has developed in Northern Mexico that profits from helping migrants cross the desert on foot to enter the United States und…
Early Olmec obsidian trade and economic organization at San Lorenzo
The Efficacy and Impact of the Alien Transfer Exit Programme
The Alien Transfer Exit Programme ( ATEP ) is a US deportation strategy created in 2008 whereby migrants are returned to border regions of Mexico distant from their initial place of apprehension. The goal of this strategy is to geographically separate migrants from their coyotes [paid crossing guide], who are often waiting for them in Mexico, in an attempt to discourage people from attempting additional border crossings. The official government s…
Undocumented migration, use wear, and the materiality of habitual suffering in the Sonoran Desert
Since the late 1990s, unauthorized migrants attempting to cross the Sonoran Desert of Arizona have been relying on a unique set of material culture to evade Border Patrol, as well as prevent and treat injuries during the crossing process. Some media and academic attention has focused on the hundreds of migrants who die each year during desert border crossings, but little focus has been paid to the non-lethal injuries (e.g. blisters and dehydratio…
Sites of Contention
Recognizing that archaeologies of the contemporary past are inherently political, this paper examines the ways in which the definition and classification of sites plays into archaeological praxis in the US-Mexico borderlands of southern Arizona. Fundamentally, our classification of contemporary archaeological sites seeks to organize spatial and material data collected by the Undocumented Migration Project (UMP) as a methodological step in creatin…
By the Time I Get to Arizona
Each year hundreds of thousands of people attempt to enter the United States from Mexico without authorization by crossing the Sonoran Desert on foot or using false identification at ports of entry. During this crossing process, people actively construct, contest, and obfuscate a multiplicity of identities through various forms of material culture including clothing, hygiene and cosmetic products, and identification paperwork. These identities in…
Photography In The House of Pakal
Surveilling Surveillance
This paper examines how mapping technology is central to the operation of the United States Border Patrol security apparatus on the US/Mexico Border, and explores how the very same mapping technology can be used in critique this security project. Drawing on the concept of counter-mapping, we use spatial data collected by the Undocumented Migration Project – a long-term anthropological project aimed at understanding various elements of the violent…
What's in Your Bag
Profile
directs the Undocumented Migration Project (UMP).De León's research investigates the brutal world of clandestine border crossings between Mexico and the US, and he is currently documenting the lives of Honduran smugglers living in Mexico.His work sits at the intersection of ethnographic, visual, archaeological, and forensic approaches to understanding social processes
The Indecisive Moment
The Undocumented Migration Project (UMP) is a long-term anthropological study of clandestine migration from Latin America across the US-Mexico border that draws on ethnography, archaeology, and forensic science to understand various elements of this controversial social process. Since its inception, the UMP has used photography as a field method employed by both researchers and migrants themselves. Drawing from the work of the UMP, this chapter d…
The Border Wall Is a Metaphor
Calling Self-Indulgence
Recent works by trans and nonbinary poets, including Oliver Baez Bendorf, Jos Charles, jayy dodd, Joshua Jennifer Espinoza, Paige Lewis, and Danez Smith, gesture to a new mode of trans-confessional poetry. Trans poets practice naming as a form of self-indulgence, and trans names and pronouns are a form of poetry—following Audre Lorde's articulation—read into the world to give it new shape. In trans naming practices and poetry, self-indulgences ar…
The Land of Open Graves
In The Land of Open Graves, Jason De León brings to light the clandestine journeys of Central American migrants through the Sonoran Desert of Arizona. He combines ethnography, archaeology, and forensic science to expose the suffering and deaths that occur along this perilous route. De León argues that the desert itself, weaponized by the U.S. Border Patrol's "Prevention Through Deterrence" policy, acts as an agent of violence, pushing migrants in…
Scales of Suffering in the US-Mexico Borderlands
Counter-infrastructure in the US-Mexico borderlands
Massive infrastructures of transportation and border security, designed to control flows of people and things, dominate the contemporary US–Mexico border. Together, these material projects work to inscribe the hegemonic processes of neoliberal capitalism and national sovereignty onto the physical landscape and into everyday life, giving them an aura of inevitability and permanence. Using archaeology, we challenge this narrative by exploring the c…
Documenting the Disappeared
An installation in the exhibition State of Exception/Estado de Excepción displays hundreds of backpacks left behind by migrants crossing the Sonoran Desert, collected by Jason De León during his re
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