UNDOCUMENTED MIGRATION PROJECTINC

What they do

Research and Education: The UMP Possesses Over A Decade Worth of Research That Uses A Combination of Ethnographic, Archaeological, Forensic, and Visual Anthropological Approaches to Understand Various Aspects of Unauthorized Border Crossings. By Combining Ethnographic Work In Mexico With Forensic and Archaeological Research In Arizona, The UMP Has Improved Our Knowledge of This Highly Politicized and Poorly Understood Process and Demonstrated How An Archaeological Approach Can Provide New Insight Into A Contemporary Social Phenomenon. The Research Being Conducted By The UMP is Interdisciplinary, A Fact Reflected By The Projects Diverse Theoretical and Methodological Approaches, The Wide Range of Venues Where This Work is Being Published, and The Ethnographic-archaeological Field School That Has Been Running In Arizona and Mexico Since 2010.