with Jeremy Slack
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With increasingly draconian policies preventing asylum seekers from entering the United States, this talk explores the dangerous dynamics for migrants in border towns. Through ethnographic research with deportees, Deported to Death presents the ways that the "war on drugs" and the "war on immigrants" have collided to create a volatile situation where kidnapping, extortion and forced recruitment are rampant. With current policies blockading over 50,000 asylum seekers in border cities, U.S. policies are directly fomenting widespread violence and human rights abuses.
Jeremy Slack is an assistant professor in the Sociology and Anthropology Department at the University of Texas at El Paso. He has been working on the U.S. Mexico border for over 15 years. His most recent book, Deported to Death: How drug violence is changing migration on the U.S. Mexico border was recently released by the University of California Press.