Dr. Jason De Leon

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  • 2008

    2008
    Jason De Leon is a Mexican-Filipino who received his PhD in anthropology from PennState University in 2008. He worked in Mexico where he looked at the economy and technology of Olmen obsidian. His current work centers around how undocumented immigration is a forensic site of materiality and also violence. He catalogs the objects left by Mexican migrants crossing the border into the United States and to locate the human and nonhuman actors and effects of undocumented immigration.