TY - BOOK ID - 32073848 TI - Sociopolitics of Migrant Death and Repatriation : Perspectives from Forensic Science AU - Latham, Krista E. AU - O'Daniel, Alyson J. PY - 2018 SN - 3319618660 3319618652 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Human remains (Archaeology) KW - Forensic archaeology. KW - Repatriation. KW - Forensic bioarchaeology KW - Archaeology KW - Forensic sciences KW - Repatriation of human remains KW - Cultural policy KW - Skeletal remains (Archaeology) KW - Human skeleton KW - Primate remains (Archaeology) KW - Repatriation KW - Government policy KW - Archaeology. KW - Forensic medicine. KW - Forensic Science. KW - Forensic medicine KW - Injuries (Law) KW - Jurisprudence, Medical KW - Legal medicine KW - Medicine KW - Medical laws and legislation KW - Archeology KW - Anthropology KW - Auxiliary sciences of history KW - History KW - Antiquities KW - Forensic science. KW - Criminalistics KW - Forensic science KW - Science KW - Criminal investigation UR - http://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32073848 AB - As scholars have by now long contended, global neoliberalism and the violence associated with state restructuring provide key frameworks for understanding flows of people across national boundaries and, eventually, into the treacherous terrains of the United States borderlands. The proposed volume builds on this tradition of situating migration and migrant death within broad, systems-level frameworks of analysis, but contends that there is another, perhaps somewhat less tidy, but no less important sociopolitical story to be told here. Through examination of how forensic scientists define, navigate, and enact their work at the frontiers of US policy and economics, this book joins a robust body of literature dedicated to bridging social theory with bioarchaeological applications to modern day problems. This volume is based on deeply and critically reflective analyses, submitted by individual scholars, wherein they navigate and position themselves as social actors embedded within and, perhaps partially constituted by, relations of power, cultural ideologies, and the social structures characterizing this moment in history. Each contribution addresses a different variation on themes of power relations, production of knowledge, and reflexivity in practice. In sum, however, the chapters of this book trace relationships between institutions, entities, and individuals comprising the landscapes of migrant death and repatriation and considers their articulation with sociopolitical dynamics of the neoliberal state. ER -