Sociopolitics of Migrant Death and Repatriation

Part I. Beyond Local Jurisdictions: Science in a Global Web of Relations

1. Introduction
Alyson J. O’Daniel, Krista E. Latham

2. All That Remains
Adriana Paramo

3. Capitalism and Crisis in Central America
Dawn Paley

4. Naming State Crimes, Naming the Dead: Immigration Policy and “The New Disappeared” in the United States and Mexico
Christine Kovic

5. Loss, Uncertainty, and Action: Ethnographic Encounters with Families of the Missing in the Central America-Mexico-United States Corridor
Wendy A. Vogt

6. The Geography of Migrant Death: Implications for Policy and Forensic Science
Gabriella Soto, Daniel E. Martínez

7. Follow the Power Lines Until You Hit a Road: Contextualizing Humanitarian Forensic Science in South Texas
Alyson J. O’Daniel

Part II. Producing and Situating Forensic Science Knowledge

8. Digging, Dollars, and Drama: The Economics of Forensic Archeology and Migrant Exhumation
Krista E. Latham, Ryan Strand

9. Expanding the Role of Forensic Anthropology in a Humanitarian Crisis: An Example from the USA-Mexico Border
Angela Soler, Jared S. Beatrice

10. Identifying Difference: Forensic Methods and the Uneven Playing Field of Repatriation
Eric J. Bartelink

11. Bodies in Limbo: Issues in Identification and Repatriation of Migrant Remains in South Texas
Timothy P. Gocha, M. Katherine Spradley, Ryan Strand

12. Dialog Across States and Agencies: Juggling Ethical Concerns of Forensic Anthropologists North of the US-Mexico Border
Cate E. Bird, Justin Maiers

13. Charting Future Directions
Krista E. Latham, Alyson J. O’Daniel

Keywords: Social Sciences, Archaeology, Forensic Science