RT Book
T1 Disappearing rooms: the hidden theaters of immigration law
T2 Dissident acts
A1 Castañeda, Michelle 1987-
A2 Crabapple, Molly 1983-
LA English
PP Durham London
PB Duke University Press
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1828168246
AB "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"--
NO Includes bibliographical references (159-176) and index
CN KF4819
SN 9781478019633
SN 9781478016991
K1 Emigration and immigration law : United States
K1 Hispanic Americans : Legal status, laws, etc
K1 Discrimination in justice administration : United States
K1 Performative (Philosophy)
K1 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / Hispanic American Studies
K1 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
K1 USA : Einwanderung : Zuwanderungsrecht : Abschiebungshaft : Kriminalisierung : Rassismus