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Jason De León, researcher and professor at UCLA, and the author of "Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling," will discuss and sign copies of his book on May 9 at the Museum of Us in Balboa Park

Jason De León’s ambitious ethnography paints human smugglers not as inhuman villains but as individuals navigating an inhuman system.

Weber State University will host renowned anthropologist and MacArthur Fellow Jason De León on Feb. 22 at 7:30 p.m. in the Val A. Browning Center's Allred Theater.

Religious, racial and class-based differences often get politicized.

Religious, racial and class-based differences often get politicized.

Religious, racial and class-based differences often get politicized.

In a symbolic act remembrance, dozens of empty graves have been opened in Kosovo to mark the International Day of the Disappeared on August 30. More than 1,600 people are still considered missing more than two decades after Kosovo's 1998-99 war of independence from Serbia.

On March 30, Mexican police arrested three officials from the National Immigration Institute and two private security guards. The arrests occurred just days after a deadly blaze at a migrant detention facility in Ciudad Juárez. One of the incarcerated migrants, who has been accused of starting the fire, has also…

In 2014, Mexico (with financial and logistical support from the Obama administration) launched Programa Frontera Sur, a security enforcement project aimed at stopping Central American migrants from reaching the U.S./Mexico border. Under this program, Mexico dramatically increased arrests and deportations while simultaneously making the migration journey more arduous and deadly. In response to this heightened security, migrants have turned to transnational gangs such as MS-13 who have become incr...

Migrant deaths along the Southwest border have long been a fact of life in the region, but the latest available records show the deaths could be on the rise again.