The Land Of Open Graves Book Review

In The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail by Jason De Leon and Michael Wells displays death and experiences of unpleasant factors of illegal immigrants that happens day-to-day in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona. There are thousands of illegal immigrants that try to venture across the border from Mexico to the United States of America. This book illustrates several fields of anthropology, such as archaeology, forensic science, ethnography, and linguistics. De Leon uses these four significant fields to critique the “Prevention through Deterrence” which is the enforcement policy for the federal border that motivates migrants to pass in areas with severe natural and environmental conditions and carries a high death rate. He also draws on beliefs of cruelty and brutality to assert that there are significant impacts such as wildlife and desert terrain that is involved in immigration law enforcement, and how they die can reflect on their social location. For a …show more content…
immigration policy and the results. They showed the struggles and the journey that the border entails. It opened my eyes to what I was not really informed about before reading this. I liked how this book pulls you into real life scenarios in a theoretical and political perspective; it also challenges the situations and ideology for these illegal immigrants. However, I would like to see more conversation on how the government feels about this policy, and why is it even carried out in the first place? Why does the government agency show cruelness? Are we trying to make things better? Is there any hope for them? There is a lot of discussion on the subject of illegal immigrants, but not enough information about the possibilities for them. Why is there no hope for them? What shakes me of confusion is why the author killed five pigs for his research when they barely talked about the animals in the book, why was it so