Deported to Death: How Drug Violence Is Changing Migration on the US–Mexico BorderWhat happens to migrants after they are deported from the United States and dropped off at the Mexican border, often hundreds if not thousands of miles from their hometowns? In this eye-opening work, Jeremy Slack foregrounds the voices and experiences of Mexican deportees, who frequently become targets of extreme forms of violence, including migrant massacres, upon their return to Mexico. Navigating the complex world of the border, Slack investigates how the high-profile drug war has led to more than two hundred thousand deaths in Mexico, and how many deportees, stranded and vulnerable in unfamiliar cities, have become fodder for drug cartel struggles. Like no other book before it, Deported to Death reshapes debates on the long-term impact of border enforcement and illustrates the complex decisions migrants must make about whether to attempt the return to an often dangerous life in Mexico or face increasingly harsh punishment in the United States. |
Contents
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They Torture You to Make You Lose Feeling | 86 |
Migrant Recruitment | 107 |
Asylum and the Limits | 172 |
Requiem for the Removed | 191 |
A Note on Researching in Violent Environments | 207 |
Notes | 213 |
The Disappeared the Dead and the Forgotten | 222 |
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