Podcast

Episode #86 The Long Term Dead: Exhuming and identifying missing migrants with Kate Spreadley

Author
Intercross
Publication Year
2019
Region
The Americas
Location
Texas, Rio Grande Valley ; ; The Americas
Thematic Area
Forensics
Topic
Identification / Migration / Recovery of remains / Excavation / Exhumation
Access
Open access

In this episode of the Podcast, we speak with Kate Spradley, a biological anthropologist and professor with the Forensic Anthropology Center at the University of Texas. In 2013, she founded Operation Identification, a service-learning project that seeks to restore identities to the remains of migrants recovered from the Rio Grande Valley region. We talk about her work, the barriers to identifying migrant remains, and the crossover with ICRC’s work with the missing. Hosted by Niki Clark and Will Pons.