Wager, J. (2023). New Wine, Old Bottles? A Review of Gabriel Gatti’s Desaparecidos (2022). Human Rights Quarterly, 45(2), 354-358.

In this new work, Gatti assays an accounting of the overflow of desaparecidos beyond the enforced-disappearance genealogy of those deemed political dissidents in the Southern Cone to the proliferation of the term in contemporary human-rights discourse. From missing migrants in the Sonoran desert to stateless people in the canefields of the Dominican Republic, from the growing population of unhoused people in San Francisco to babies robbed in Spanish hospitals, Gatti tracks the category desaparecidos as one articulating abandonment across far-flung locales and juridically unconnected situations.

https://doi.org/10.1353/hrq.2023.0021