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Still processing the powerful presentation and panel discussion with Jason de León - whose work on migrant deaths at the US-México border is just wow. Thinking about how we know what we know about the past (and present) and the role of research in presenting official absences. 
De León’s work provides tangible evidence of the known consequences of border policies that push migrants into taking ever more dangerous routes to cross the desert: deaths. His exhibition #HostileTerrain94 involves putting names and death details to every recorded death.
During the talk Jason acknowledged that the official figures we have for deaths are undoubtedly much lower than the reality because the authorities have no real interest in finding bodies and often bodies don’t long survive very long in the unforgiving Sonora desert.
