Name Us: Necrology as Elegiac Resistance in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

Key Points

• Narrative searches illuminate the identities of the unidentified migrant dead, challenging erasure by border policies.
• Using works from photography, journalism, and creative nonfiction, the study reveals their power to resist necropolitical practices.
• The analysis connects necrology and elegy, showing how these forms serve as resistance to the anonymity imposed by border policies.
• Investigating twenty-first-century narratives offers insight into the socio-political impact of migrant deaths on both sides of the border.

Abstract