摘要：

This chapter moves the focus of migrant death and repatriation from the US-Mexico borderlands to explore a wider geography of migration-related risk, disappearance, and death. Based on ethnographic research with both transit migrants and the families of missing migrants in Oaxaca, Mexico, it examines how individuals and communities grapple with the daily uncertainty of loved ones who have been detained, have disappeared, or have perished during their journeys to the north. Migrant families are not simply victims but engage state and non-state actors, institutions, and mediums as they confront the emotional, legal, scientific, and financial implications of loss. Increasingly, their actions span across borders, creating new openings for solidarity and engagement. As migrant journeys across the globe become more clandestine and dangerous, it is crucial for social scientists to recognize the ways transnational families are being reshaped not only by family separation and deportation but also by disappearance and death.

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