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  • ​Anderson BE. 2008. Identifying the Dead: Methods Utilized by the Pima County (Arizona) Office of the Medical Examiner for Undocumented Border Crossers: 2001–2006. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 53 (1): 8–15.

  • Anderson BE, Parks BO. 2008. Symposium on Border Crossing Deaths: Introduction. Journal of Forensic Sciences 53 (1) (January): 6–7. doi:10.1111/j.1556-4029.2007.00608.x.

  • Anderson BE, Spradley MK. 2016. The role of the anthropologist in the identification of migrant remains in the American Southwest." Academic Forensic Pathology, 6 (3): 432-438.

  • Annerino J. 2003. Dead in Their Tracks: Crossing America’s Desert Borderlands. Basic Books.

  • Bailey SR, Eschbach K, Hagan JM, Rodriguez N. 1996. Migrant Deaths at the Texas-Mexico Border, 1985-1994. Center for Immigration Research, University of Houston.

  • Birkby WH, Fenton TW, Anderson BE. 2008. Identifying Southwest Hispanics Using Nonmetric Traits and the Cultural Profile*. Journal of Forensic Sciences 53 (1): 29–33.

  • Chamblee JF, Christopherson GL, Townley M , DeBorde D, Hoover R. Mapping Migrant Deaths in Southern Arizona: The Humane Borders GIS. In Proceedings of the 2006 ESRI International User Conference. San Diego, CA: Environmental Systems Research Institute.
    (http://proceedings.esri.com/library/userconf/proc06/papers/papers/pap_1464.pdf)

  • Cornelius WA. 2001. Death at the Border: Efficacy and Unintended Consequences of US Immigration Control Policy. Population and Development Review 27 (4) (December): 661–685.​

  • Eschbach K, Hagan J, Rodriguez N, Hernandez-Leon R, Bailey S. 1999. “Death at the Border.” International Migration Review 33 (2): 430–454.

  • Guerette RT. 2007. Migrant Death. LFB Scholarly Pub.

  • Hagan JM. 2008. Migration Miracle: Faith, Hope, and Meaning on the Undocumented Journey. Harvard University Press.

  • Keim SM, Mays MZ, Parks BO, Pytlak E, Harris RM, Kent MA. 2006. Estimating the Incidence of Heat-Related Deaths Among Immigrants in Pima County, Arizona. Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health 8 (2) (April): 185–191. doi:10.1007/s10903-006-8527-z.

  • Nevins J. 2007. “Dying for a Cup of Coffee? Migrant Deaths in the US-Mexico Border Region in a Neoliberal Age.” Geopolitics 12 (2): 228. doi:10.1080/14650040601168826.

  • Nevins J, Aizeki M. 2008. Dying to Live. Open Media/City Lights Books.

  • Ramos J. 2005. Dying to Cross : the Worst Immigrant Tragedy in American History. 1st ed. New York: Rayo.

  • Regan M. 2010. The Death of Josseline: Immigration Stories from the Arizona-Mexico Borderlands. Beacon Press.

  • Rubio-Goldsmith R, McCormick M, Martinez D, and Duarte IM. 2006. The “Funnel Effect” & Recovered Bodies of Unauthorized Migrants Processed by the Pima County Office of the Medical Examiner, 1990-2005. Report Submitted To The  Pima County Board Of Supervisors. Tucson, AZ: Binational Migration Institute.

  • Martinez D, Reineke R, Rubio-Goldsmith R, Parks BO. 2014. Structural violence and migrant deaths in Southern Arizona: Data from the Pima County Office of the Medical Examiner, 1990–2013. Journal on Migration and Human Security 2, 4: 257-286.

  • Martinez D, Reineke R, Boyce G, Chambers SN, Anderson BE, Hess GL, Vollner JM , Parks BO, Vogelsberg CCM , Soto G, Kreyche M, Rubio-Goldsmith R. 2021. Migrant Deaths in Southern Arizona: Recovered Undocumented Border Crosser Remains Investigated by the Pima County Office of the Mexican Examiner, 1990-2020. Report. Binational Migration Institute, University of Arizona.  https://bmi.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/BMI%20Report%202021%20ENGLISH_FINAL.pdf

  • Martinez D, Reineke R, Rubio-Goldsmith R , Anderson BE,  Hess GL, Parks BO. 2013. A Continued Humanitarian Crisis at the Border: Undocumented Border Crosser Deaths Recorded by the Pima County Office of the Medical Examiner, 1990 – 2012. Report Published by the Binational Migration Institute. http://bmi.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/border_deaths_final_web.pdf

  • Sapkota, S, Kohl HW, Gilchrist J, McAuliffe J, Parks B, England B, Flood T. 2006. Unauthorized Border Crossings and Migrant Deaths: Arizona, New Mexico, and El Paso, Texas, 2002–2003. American Journal of Public Health 96 (7) (July): 1282–1287. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2005.075168.

  • Soler, A, Beatrice JS. 2018. Expanding the role of forensic anthropology in a humanitarian crisis: An example from the USA-Mexico border. In Sociopolitics of migrant death and repatriation, pp. 115-128. Springer, Cham.

  • Spradley MK, Jantz RL, Robinson A, Peccerelli F. 2008. Demographic change and forensic identification: Problems in metric identification of Hispanic skeletons. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 53(1):21-28.

  • Spradley MK. 2015. Ancestry estimation from the postcranial skeleton. Biological Affinity in Forensic Identification of Human Skeletal Remains: Beyond Black and White. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.

  • Tise, ML, Spradley MK, Anderson BE. 2013. Postcranial sex estimation of individuals considered Hispanic. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 58: S9-S14.

  • Urrea, LA. 2004. The Devil’s Highway. Little, Brown and Company.

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