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Fecal Steroids as Tracers of Human Population and Waste Management Practices at the Ancient Maya City of Ucanal, Guatemala

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Geochemical data compiled from dried sediments from three water reservoirs at the ancient Maya city of Ucanal, Petén, Guatemala, reveal low to undetectable fecal biomarker concentrations. These low concentrations may be the result of the aerobic decay of sterols combined with well‐managed waste disposal practices.
Jean D. Tremblay   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lopez v. Gonzales & Toledo-Flores v. United States: State Felony Drug Convictions Not Necessarily Aggravated Felonies Requiring Deportation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
The United States Courts of Appeals split over whether state felony drug convictions, which were punishable only as misdemeanors under federal law, constituted aggravated felonies under immigration law.
Wagner, Ryan
core   +1 more source

Mediating atmospheric bordering: Migratory journeys in hostile environments

open access: yesArea, EarlyView.
Short Abstract The main claim of the paper is that displaced people mediate affective processes that aim to shape their movements, and that such mediations are critical for understanding: the importance of sensory relations and spaces of movement that might otherwise remain obscure; the ways to challenge affective politics; and the relationship among ...
SUZAN ILCAN
wiley   +1 more source

Why are immigrants' incarceration rates so low? evidence on selective immigration, deterrence, and deportation [PDF]

open access: yes
Much of the concern about immigration adversely affecting crime derives from the fact that immigrants tend to have characteristics in common with native born populations that are disproportionately incarcerated.
Anne Morrison Piehl, Kristin Butcher
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Christian Villanueva - Trauma Exposure Reported By Women Recently Deported from the U.S. to Mexico [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
In 2012 the U.S. deported approximately 200,000 individuals to Mexico; a significant proportion of these individuals were women. The combined effect of previous traumatic experiences with that of being deported to Mexico is detrimental to women’s health.
Villanueva, Christian
core   +1 more source

Toward a feminist geo‐legal reading: US country‐of‐origin information in asylum adjudication

open access: yesArea, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article, we offer what we call ‘a feminist geo‐legal reading’ of documents used in spaces and practices of law. Legal cases and decisions are often based on different legal and non‐legal documents, including laws, explanatory memorandums, testimonies, medical reports, and so forth. In contemporary asylum adjudication, country‐of‐origin
Malene H. Jacobsen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Post-9/11 Illegal Immigrant Detention and Deportation: Terrorism and the Criminalization of Immigration

open access: yes, 2014
This paper analyzes the changes in immigration policy since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 in terms of how immigrants are viewed in the United States.
Laun, Stefany N.
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Blurring Migrant Solidarity: Navigating the Troubled Regime of ‘Helping Others’ From the Urban Ground of Palermo

open access: yesArea, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores migrant solidarity in the aftermath of the 2015 so‐called ‘migration crisis’ from the ground of the Southern Italian ‘solidarity city’ of Palermo, building on ethnographic material collected across 2022/2023. It argues that migrant solidarity both resists and reproduces racialised borders, as it is never entirely and ...
Francesca Guarino
wiley   +1 more source

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