Disappearing rooms: the hidden theaters of immigration law

"In Disappearing Rooms Michelle Castañeda lays bare the criminalization of race enacted every day in U.S. immigration courts and detention centers. She uses a performance studies perspective to show how the theatrical concept of mise-en-scéne offers new insights about immigration law and the ab...

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Main Author: Castañeda, Michelle 1987- (Author)
Contributors: Crabapple, Molly 1983- (Illustrator)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
Published: Durham London Duke University Press 2023
In:Year: 2023
Online Access: Table of Contents
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Keywords:
Emigration and immigration law > United States
Hispanic Americans > Legal status, laws, etc
Discrimination in justice administration > United States
Performative (Philosophy)
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / Hispanic American Studies
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
USA > Einwanderung > Zuwanderungsrecht > Abschiebungshaft > Kriminalisierung > Rassismus
Related Items:Erscheint auch als: 1848834306
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Summary:"In Disappearing Rooms Michelle Castañeda lays bare the criminalization of race enacted every day in U.S. immigration courts and detention centers. She uses a performance studies perspective to show how the theatrical concept of mise-en-scéne offers new insights about immigration law and the absurdist dynamics of carceral space. Castañeda draws upon her experiences in immigration trials as an interpreter and courtroom companion to analyze the scenography-lighting, staging, framing, gesture, speech, and choreography-of specific rooms within the immigration enforcement system. Castañeda's ethnographies of proceedings in a "removal" office in New York City, a detention center courtroom in Texas, and an asylum office in the Northeast reveal the depersonalizing violence enacted in immigration law through its embodied, ritualistic, and affective components. She shows how the creative practices of detained and disappeared peoples living under acute duress imagine the abolition of detention and borders. Featuring original illustrations by artist-journalist, Molly Crabapple, Disappearing Rooms shines a light into otherwise hidden spaces of law within the contemporary deportation regime. Duke University of Press Scholars of Color First Book Award Recipient"--
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (159-176) and index
Physical Description:xi, 186 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9781478019633
9781478016991