Since the 1990s, US border policies have worked to funnel undocumented migration into remote stretches of the Sonoran Desert, where deadly terrain and temperatures make border crossing most dangerous. This weaponization of the desert finds some cover, we argue, behind the scalar projects of state-centered maps emphasizing vast geography and gross statistics over personal pain and trauma. Counter-mapping against these projects, we draw on archaeological and ethnographic data from the Undocumented Migration Project (UMP), and geospatial data for thousands of deceased migrants across southern Arizona, to witness how migration, as both socio-historical process and humanitarian crisis, emerges from human-scale strategies and experiences of suffering.

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美墨边境地区的痛苦规模

自1990年代以来，美国的边境政策一直致力于将无证件的移民转移到索诺兰沙漠的偏远地区，那里致命的地形和温度使过境变得最危险。我们认为，沙漠化的武器化在以国家为中心的地图标量项目背后找到了掩盖之处，这些项目强调了广阔的地理环境和有关个人痛苦和创伤的总体统计数据。与这些项目相对应的是，我们利用了无证移民项目（UMP）的考古学和人种学数据，以及亚利桑那州南部成千上万已故移民的地理空间数据，以了解移民如何作为社会历史过程和人道主义危机，从人类尺度的策略和痛苦经历中产生。