Exit Wounds

How America's Guns Fuel Violence across the Border
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-0-520-41930-8
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 57, 350 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Reihe: California Series in Public Anthropology

Turns the familiar story of trafficking across the US-Mexico border on its head, looking at firearms smuggled south from the United States to Mexico and their ricochet effects.

American guns have entangled the lives of people on both sides of the US-Mexico border in a vicious circle of violence. After treating wounded migrants and refugees seeking safety in the United States, anthropologist Ieva Jusionyte boldly embarked on a journey in the opposite direction—following the guns from dealers in Arizona and Texas to crime scenes in Mexico.

An expert work of narrative nonfiction, Exit Wounds provides a rare, intimate look into the world of firearms trafficking and urges us to understand the effects of lax US gun laws abroad. Jusionyte masterfully weaves together the gripping stories of people who live and work with guns north and south of the border: a Mexican businessman who smuggles guns for protection, a teenage girl turned trained assassin, two US federal agents trying to stop gun traffickers, and a journalist who risks his life to report on organized crime. Based on years of fieldwork, Exit Wounds expands current debates about guns in America, grappling with US complicity in violence on both sides of the border.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jusionyte, Ieva

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Medizin- und Gesundheitsrecht Arzneimittelrecht und Medizinprodukterecht, Apothekenrecht, Krankenhausrecht
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Map of the US-Mexico Borderlands

The Workshop

Shape of Wounds

Recruited

Arming the State

With a Side of Beans

Collateral Damage

Ghost Highway

The Last Letter

The Camp

The Player

Poisoned City

Fallen Sovereigns
Blurred Lines

Brothers

Revenge

50 BMG

Attitude

Caged

Homefront

Metal Afterlives

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

About This Project: Methods, Ethics, Sources

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ieva Jusionyte is an anthropologist and associate professor at Brown University. A former paramedic and Harvard Radcliffe and Fulbright fellow, she is the author of the award-winning Threshold: Emergency Responders on the US-Mexico Border.