What stories do discarded backpacks, water bottles and cheap sneakers tell? A lot, when they mark the path of undocumented migrants along the Arizona-Sonora border, says Jason De Le\u00f3n an anthropologist at the University of Michigan.<\/p>\n
De Le\u00f3n, who directs the Undocumented Migration Project, uses ethnography and contemporary archaeology to better understand clandestine crossings along the Arizona-Sonora border. He will share his observations during a free public lecture at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 17, in the Wettaw Auditorium at NAU.<\/p>\n
In the last three years, De Le\u00f3n and his students have studied about a hundred different sites used by migrants walking north across southern Arizona. They map sites and record the discarded objects they find. And those artifacts, in turn, help De Le\u00f3n gain a better picture of what\u2019s really happening as people cross the international border.<\/p>\n
De Le\u00f3n\u2019s presentation is part of the\u00a0New Horizons in Science Briefing<\/a>, a national gathering of science journalists that is being hosted by NAU. For information, email\u00a0Peter.Friederici@nau.edu<\/a>\u00a0or call (928) 523-6378.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"