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FARMINGTON During the fall semester, students at the University of Maine at Farmington (UMF) participated in Hostile Terrain 94, a visual anthropology exhibit developed by the Undocumented Migration Project. The project maps out the location of 3,200 people who perished between the mid-90s to 2019 in the Sonoran Desert while trying to cross the Arizona-Mexico border.
Hostile Terrain 94 is an international traveling exhibit based on anthropologist Jason De León’s ethnographical work of recovering the identities and stories of undocumented migrants. The exhibit is rebuilt at every new location by engaging local community members to fill out toe tags for the recovered bodies. The tags are then arranged on a wall by the longitude and latitude of where the correlated bodies were found.