Jason De León

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Jason De León is affiliated with the following schools: University of Michigan, University of California, San Diego, University of California, Los Angeles, Pennsylvania State University

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Jason De León

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#1089

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#1449

Historical Rank

#536

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Jason De León's Degrees

PhD Anthropology Pennsylvania State University
Masters Anthropology Pennsylvania State University
Bachelors Anthropology University of California, San Diego

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According to Wikipedia, Jason De León is an anthropologist, a National Geographic Emerging Explorer , and a MacArthur Foundation 2017 Fellow. He studies the migration from Latin America to the United States of clandestine migrants crossing the U.S.–Mexico border. De León is Professor of Anthropology and Chicana, Chicano, and Central American Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles and Director of the Undocumented Migration Project t, a non-profit research/arts/education collective aimed at documenting and raising awareness about migration issues while also assisting families of missing migrants search for their loved ones.

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Jason De León's Published Works

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Published Works

The Land of Open Graves (2019) (469)
Object and Walking Probes in Ethnographic Interviewing (2005) (118)
“Better to Be Hot than Caught”: Excavating the Conflicting Roles of Migrant Material Culture (2012) (88)
Early Olmec obsidian trade and economic organization at San Lorenzo (2013) (43)
Undocumented migration, use wear, and the materiality of habitual suffering in the Sonoran Desert (2013) (38)
EXPLORING FORMATIVE PERIOD OBSIDIAN BLADE TRADE: THREE DISTRIBUTION MODELS (2009) (35)
Animal Scavenging and Scattering and the Implications for Documenting the Deaths of Undocumented Border Crossers in the Sonoran Desert , (2015) (34)
The Efficacy and Impact of the Alien Transfer Exit Programme: Migrant Perspectives from Nogales, Sonora, Mexico (2013) (27)
“By the Time I Get to Arizona”: Citizenship, Materiality, and Contested Identities Along the US–Mexico Border (2015) (22)
Sites of Contention: Archaeological Classification and Political Discourse in the US-Mexico Borderlands (2014) (20)
4 Rethinking the Organization of Aztec Salt Production: A Domestic Perspective (2009) (11)
Surveilling surveillance: Countermapping undocumented migration in the USA-Mexico Borderlands (2016) (9)
“Disruption,” use wear, and migrant habitus in the Sonoran desert (2015) (8)
11 Intermittent Domestic Lapidary Production during the Late Formative Period at Nativitas, Tlaxcala, Mexico (2009) (8)
Anthropocene Unseen: A Lexicon (2020) (6)
Undocumented migration, use wear, and the materiality of habitual suffering in the Sonoran Desert (2013) (6)
Scales of Suffering in the US-Mexico Borderlands (2020) (5)
Physiological costs of undocumented human migration across the southern United States border (2021) (4)
Demystifying the Annual Meeting Submission Review Process (2018) (3)
Lasting value? (2018) (3)
Risky Border Crossings (2019) (2)
The Indecisive Moment (2018) (1)
The Indecisive Moment (2018) (1)
1. Prevention Through Deterrence (2019) (1)
Humanitarian Sites: A Contemporary Archaeological and Ethnographic Study of Clandestine Culture Contact among Undocumented Migrants, Humanitarian Aid Groups, and the U.S. Border Patrol (2015) (1)
Counter-infrastructure in the US–Mexico borderlands: some archaeological perspectives (2021) (1)
"Clean Up Your Mess, Chino": Contested Space, Boredom, and Vulnerability among Central American Migrants Crossing Southern Mexico. (2016) (0)
The Border Wall Is a Metaphor (2019) (0)
PortfolioHostile Terrain 94 (2021) (0)
Profile: Jason De León (2017) (0)
6.5. The Border Wall Is a Metaphor (2020) (0)
7. The Crossing (2019) (0)
"Flesh Wounds": Migrant Injuries and the Archaeological Traces of Pain (2015) (0)
2. Dangerous Ground (2019) (0)
Inside the Annual Meeting Scheduling Process (2018) (0)
Comparative hemostatic efficacy of 4F-PCC in patients with intracranial hemorrhage on factor Xa inhibitors versus warfarin. (2022) (0)
The Border Wall Is a Metaphor (2019) (0)
"Etched in Bone": The Forensic Taphonomy of Undocumented Migration in the Sonoran Desert (2015) (0)
Smugglers (2020) (0)
Portfolio (2021) (0)
Characterization of a speaker from a telephone recording using speech quality measurements (2005) (0)
On Dangerous Ground: Documenting the Undocumented Migration Project 2009-2014 (2015) (0)
Scales of Suffering in the US-Mexico Borderlands (2020) (0)
Appendix A. Border Patrol Apprehensions, Southern Border Sectors, 2000–2014 (2019) (0)
What's in Your Bag? (2017) (0)
Life, Death, and Time: Rethinking the Social Process of Undocumented Migration in the 21st Century (2016) (0)
"Cherry-Picking" the Material Record of Border Crossings: Artifact Selection and Narrative Construction Among Non-Migrants (2015) (0)
Apparel in Peril: An archaeological study of how clothing becomes embedded with human suffering (2015) (0)
Photography In The House of Pakal (2016) (0)
The Edge of Humanity: Why Commonsensical Notions about Nature Impede our Understandings of Structural Violence in the Arizona Desert (2015) (0)
Appendix B. Border Patrol Apprehensions, Tucson Sector, by Distance from the Border, Fiscal Years 2010 and 2011 (2019) (0)
"Stepping Over the Line": Hyper-Masculinity, Institutionalized Violence, and the Archaeology of the U.S. Border Patrol (2015) (0)
Old Methods and Theories in the Ethnographic Present: Why We Need An Archaeological Sensibility in the 21st Century (2019) (0)
6. Technological Warfare (2019) (0)
A Story Told Two Ways: Exploring the Intersectionality Between the Archaeological Record and Social Context of Undocumented Female Migrants (2015) (0)
Inside the Annual Meeting Scheduling Process (2018) (0)
9. You Can’t Leave Them Behind (2019) (0)
En Las Vías: Suffering and Triage on the Central American Trail (2016) (0)
Backpack Biographies: Re-scaling Undocumented Migration in the US-Mexico Borderlands (2019) (0)

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