Jason De León Biography

Jason De León is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan and the director of the Undocumented Migration Project (UMP) a study of clandestine migration between Mexico and the United States. By using a range of anthropological methods combining ethnographic analysis of migrant stories forensic science and archaeological research De León tries to understand the human consequences of immigration policy —who makes the journey the routes the means of survival and manner of death. His research and fieldwork in the Sonoran Desert adapting the tools and theories of archaeology for the study of the items and material artifacts left behind by migrants (i.e. an archaeology of the contemporary informs his ongoing Undocumented Migration Project (2009–). Part of the Project includes State of Exception/Estado de Excepción a touring museum exhibition co-curated by De León. The exhibition features the backpacks shoes water bottles and other items left behind by migrants as well as audio interviews that add the perspectives of migrants making this dangerous journey.

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