Capturing los migrantes desaparecidos: Crisis, unknowability, and the making of the missing

Perspectives on Science
Volume 25, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 680-697

Capturing los migrantes desaparecidos: Crisis, unknowability, and the making of the missing (Article)

Smith L.A. , García-Deister V.

^a University of New Mexico, United States
^b Unviersidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico

Abstract

Drawing on fourteen months of ethnographic work, we analyze three populationmaking technologies (denuncias, biobanks, and bodies) that have emerged as dominant tools both on the part of governments and human rights advocates to capture the missing migrants. We conclude that missing migrants are a Population of Cognition that is both made legible and unknowable through specific technologies and delineations of crisis. © 2017 by The Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85030527630&doi=10.1162%2fPOSC_a_00259&partnerID=40&md5=a6856e33ea6473b0041a67f0d9a687dc

DOI: 10.1162/POSC_a_00259

ISSN: 10636145

Cited by: 3

Original Language: English