Selected Publications, Presentations, & Media from the M3P2 Team

Publications and presentations by the team are updated on this page on an ongoing basis.

Publications

What is a migrant death? An operational definition for a more accurate enumeration of migrant mortality along the U.S.-Mexico border
by Miranker, Miranker, Rachel Daniell, Molly Kaplan, Veronica Flores-Guillen, Jasmine Hernandez, Heather Edgar, Kate Spradley, Nicholas Herrmann, & Alberto Giordano
JOURNAL ARTICLE

Forensic science international, 363, 112156. 2024.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2024.112156
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Conference Presentations, Invited Talks, and More

  • Giordano, A. 2026. Migrant deaths at the Texas–Mexico Border: Who, when, where and what we do not know. LifeLong Learning - San Marcos , San Marcos Public Library, San Marcos, TX, October 23, 2026. INVITED TALK
  • Giordano, A. 2026. The Migrant Mortality Mapping Portal Project (M3P2): Functionalities and Findings. Inaugural Humanitarian Forensic Conference, Arizona State University West Valley Campus, Phoenix, AZ, October 16-17, 2026. CONFERENCE PRESENTATION (download PDF copy here)
  • Giordano, A. 2026. Migrant deaths at the Texas–Mexico border: Who, when, where and what we do not know. XI International Colloquium of the Mexican Northeast and Texas (XI Coloquio Internacional del Noreste Mexicano y Texas), University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg, TX, September 23-26, 2026. CONFERENCE PRESENTATION
  • Giordano, A. Migrant deaths at the Texas–Mexico border: Who, when, where and what we do not know. Centro Cultural Hispano de San Marcos, San Marcos, TX, February 4, 2026. INVITED TALK
  • Giordano, A. Migrant deaths at the Texas–Mexico border: Who, when, where and what we do not know. Center for the Study of the Southwest, Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, 30 January 2026. INVITED TALK
  • Giordano, A., Miranker, M., Daniell, R., Kaplan, M., Flores-Guillen, V., Hernandez, J., Edgar, H., Spradley, K., and Herrmann, N. 2025. Migrant deaths at the Texas–Mexico border: Who, when, where and what we do not know. 2025 Meeting of the Southwest Division of the American Association of Geographers (SWAAG), Albuquerque, NM, October 29-November 1, 2025. CONFERENCE PRESENTATION
  • Giordano, A. 2025. Migrant Deaths at the US-Mexico Border. The Spatial Turn in Holocaust and Genocide Studies: Space, Place and Mapping, The Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University, Providence, RI, April 25-26, 2025. INVITED TALK
  • Miranker, M., Daniell, R., Kaplan, M., Flores-Guillen, V., Edgar, H., Spradley, K., Herrmann, N., and Giordano, A. 2023. What Is A Migrant Death? An Operational Definition, Workshop on Migrant Deaths along the US-Mexico Border: Methods, Practice, Policy, and Human Security, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, October 6, 2023. POSTER
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Dr. Miranker of the M3P2 team presents M3P2 research at a conference in February 2025.