Spectral Aesthetics: Visualizing the Crisis of Migrant Disappearance
By China Medel
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By China Medel
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Analyzing how artists reimagine migrant disappearance and visibility at the US–Mexico border.
In the mid-1990s, the US government implemented Prevention through Deterrence, a major buildup of troops, walls, and surveillance around El Paso and San Diego. Cut off from these crucial urban crossings, migrants flowed into the dangerous surrounding deserts, where some ten thousand have since died. This is all according to plan: Pentagon documents describe the strategy of funneling migrants toward...


