Documenting Migrant Deaths Border-Wide is focus of UA Conference

Researchers, academics and forensic experts from all four southern-border states met Friday at the University of Arizona to pursue a set of shared goals: developing a standardized system to do current migrant deaths along the U.S.-Mexico border, and building a centralized database to help illuminate trends in migration.
Effective and humane border policy requires a deeper understanding of migrant deaths border-wide — and that requires good data, said Daniel E. Martínez, co-director of the UA’s Binational Migration Institute and an associate professor of sociology.
Martínez is a member of the multi-state working group whose members gathered at the UA Student Union Memorial Center Friday for…