"The Land of Open Graves" is a book written by Jason De León; a professor in Anthropology. The book focusses on reveling the troubling political issue that is facing immigrants when trying to enter United States through Sonoran Desert of Arizona.
The author of the book highlights the sufferings that immigrants undergo as the result of implementing the US immigration policy for decades. While drawing insights from four core fields of anthropology, the author is able to articulate his ideas and critiques on the scathing and the gruesome experience that immigrants are always facing, especially in the Desert of Arizona. Ethnography, forensic science, linguistics and archeology are four major fields of anthropology that the author used at his disposal to carry out his criticism on the US immigration policy that uses the approach of “Prevention through deterrence”. This is the policy that is enhanced by the federal border and it allows the immigrants to pass through the areas that are known for their extreme weather conditions that only serve to increase the death risks of those respective immigrants. The author of this book is critical of this policy in that it has failed amicably to halt border crossers at the same time enhancing the …show more content…
Through the review of this book, I have been able to learn great historical experiences that Mexican Americans undergone before settling in United State. From the book, one is able to picture the struggles that Chicanos have endured in their pursuit of being recognized as part of Population in United States. Chicano are art of the Mexican immigrants who entered and settled I United States. Historically, Chicanos have always been marginalized due to their minority status. It is through the book “The Land of Open Graves” that one is able to draw a background picture of how Chicanos entered United
The author of the book highlights the sufferings that immigrants undergo as the result of implementing the US immigration policy for decades. While drawing insights from four core fields of anthropology, the author is able to articulate his ideas and critiques on the scathing and the gruesome experience that immigrants are always facing, especially in the Desert of Arizona. Ethnography, forensic science, linguistics and archeology are four major fields of anthropology that the author used at his disposal to carry out his criticism on the US immigration policy that uses the approach of “Prevention through deterrence”. This is the policy that is enhanced by the federal border and it allows the immigrants to pass through the areas that are known for their extreme weather conditions that only serve to increase the death risks of those respective immigrants. The author of this book is critical of this policy in that it has failed amicably to halt border crossers at the same time enhancing the …show more content…
Through the review of this book, I have been able to learn great historical experiences that Mexican Americans undergone before settling in United State. From the book, one is able to picture the struggles that Chicanos have endured in their pursuit of being recognized as part of Population in United States. Chicano are art of the Mexican immigrants who entered and settled I United States. Historically, Chicanos have always been marginalized due to their minority status. It is through the book “The Land of Open Graves” that one is able to draw a background picture of how Chicanos entered United