Soldiers and Kings
Seven years embedded with the smugglers who move migrants north — an anthropologist's unprecedented account.
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Présentation
Anthropologist Jason De León spent nearly seven years alongside the guides, drivers and low-level operators who move migrants across Mexico toward the United States — the smugglers themselves, so often reduced to caricature. Soldiers and Kings: Survival and Hope in the World of Human Smuggling portrays them as products of poverty and violence as much as actors in it, without romanticising what they do. Winner of the 2024 National Book Award for Nonfiction, it is a rare work of embedded ethnography on one of the most contested subjects of our time — attentive to complexity where public debate sees only categories.