Join the Watson Institute for a discussion of Ieva Jusionyte’s new book, Exit Wounds: How America’s Guns Fuel Violence across the Border. She will be joined by panelists Peter Andreas, John Hay Professor of International Studies and Political Science, Brown University; Ana Villarreal, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Boston University; and Rosalva Aída Hernández Castillo, Professor of Anthropology, CIESAS Mexico City. Moderated by Neil Safier, Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Brown University.

Ieva Jusionyte is the Watson Family University Associate Professor of International Security and Anthropology at Brown University. Dr. Jusionyte’s scholarship explores the conceptual and material relationship between the state and various forms of violence. She uses ethnography as a method and a form of storytelling to examine the narratives, aesthetics, and practices that underlie security.

About the Book
American guns have entangled the lives of people on both sides of the US-Mexico border in a vicious circle of violence. After treating wounded migrants and refugees seeking safety in the United States, anthropologist Ieva Jusionyte boldly embarked on a journey in the opposite direction—following the guns from dealers in Arizona and Texas to crime scenes in Mexico.

An expert work of narrative nonfiction, Exit Wounds provides a rare, intimate look into the world of firearms trafficking and urges us to understand the effects of lax US gun laws abroad. Jusionyte masterfully weaves together the gripping stories of people who live and work with guns north and south of the border: a Mexican businessman who smuggles guns for protection, a teenage girl turned trained assassin, two US federal agents trying to stop gun traffickers, and a journalist who risks his life to report on organized crime. Based on years of fieldwork, Exit Wounds expands current debates about guns in America, grappling with US complicity in violence on both sides of the border.