Abstract:In 1994, the United States implemented Prevention through Deterrence (PTD)—a policy that further militarized the southern borderlands and redirected migration to the Sonoran Desert, leading to an unimaginable loss of life. While many scholars have written about this policy, they largely describe the desert as complicit with the government, its temperatures and remote landscape a weapon against people attempting to cross state borders. The author draws on theories of the sacred to understand how the Sonoran Des… Show more
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