“[R]emoteness is a relational phenomenon that must be continuously reproduced and defended” and “governmental efforts to do so measurably increase the risk of human mortality. Selective access also obscures the scale of this phenomenon.” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Manufacturing Desolation: Unauthorized Border Crosser Mortality, Disappearance, and the Sociopolitical Construction of Remoteness in U.S. Boundary EnforcementU.S. boundary enforcement has long been organized around an effort to redirect unauthorized border crossing into remote and inhospitable expanses of desert terrain. Using southern Arizona’s West De...www.tandfonline.com