Migration and mortality : social death dispossession and survival in the Americas Murder it remains: migration parasitic violence and mortality Miranda Cady Hallett and Jamie Longazel Death by enclosure: human rights organizations migrant fatalities and the delimitation of the global commons Joseph Nevins Living and dying in El Norte: the framing of Maya migration Alicia Ivonne Estrada Proprietors of death: an ethnography of the 2019 San Antonio Border Security Expo Marianne Madoré and Nicholas Rodrigo Anonymous brown bodies: the productive power of the deadly U.S. Mexico border Nicholas De Genova Detention economies: commodifying social death Deirdre Conlon and Nancy Hiemstra Heat related illness and death among migrant farmworkers: dispatches from the Girasoles study Nathan J. Mutic and Linda A. McCauley Morbidity and mortality in immigrant narratives: a public health perspective on state violence social exclusion and experiences of harm among deportable immigrants Daniel L. Stageman and Shirley P. Leyro Death and disabilities in divergent deportation contexts: revisiting the Hispanic epidemiological paradox Juan M. Pedroza and Pil H. Chung The dead and living dead: legal violence and undocumented kidney failure patients in Atlanta Georgia Nolan Kline Expanding exclusion: migration asylum and transnational death in Mexico and the United States Jared P. Van Ramshorst Better in jail there than dead here: deportation and (social) death in Honduras Amelia Frank Vitale Miskitu labor and immigrant struggles: against U.S. anti Central American policies of social death Karina Alma A politics of survival Abby C. Wheatley Death in detention: pandemic loss and social mobilization Anna M. Babel with Miranda Cady Hallett and Jamie Longazel. This book uses theories of social death and the construction of lives as disposable across legal public health criminal carceral media labor and medical arenas to examine the fatal stakes of migration policy and practice for migrants crossing the U.S. southern border