The Undocumented Everyday - Rebecca M. Schreiber

The Undocumented Everyday

Migrant Lives and the Politics of Visibility
Buch | Softcover
360 Seiten
2018
University of Minnesota Press (Verlag)
978-1-5179-0023-6 (ISBN)
29,90 inkl. MwSt
The UndocumentedEveryday
Examining how undocumented migrants are using film, video, and other documentary media to challenge surveillance, detention, and deportation

As debates over immigration increasingly become flashpoints of political contention in the United States, a variety of advocacy groups, social service organizations, filmmakers, and artists have provided undocumented migrants with the tools and training to document their experiences.

In The Undocumented Everyday, Rebecca M. Schreiber examines the significance of self-representation by undocumented Mexican and Central American migrants, arguing that by centering their own subjectivity and presence through their use of documentary media, these migrants are effectively challenging intensified regimes of state surveillance and liberal strategies that emphasize visibility as a form of empowerment and inclusion. Schreiber explores documentation as both an aesthetic practice based on the visual conventions of social realism and a state-administered means of identification and control. 

As Schreiber shows, by visualizing new ways of belonging not necessarily defined by citizenship, these migrants are remaking documentary media, combining formal visual strategies with those of amateur photography and performative elements to create a mixed-genre aesthetic. In doing so, they make political claims and create new forms of protection for migrant communities experiencing increased surveillance, detention, and deportation.

Rebecca M. Schreiber is associate professor of American studies at the University of New Mexico. She is author of Cold War Exiles in Mexico: U.S. Dissidents and the Culture of Critical Resistance (Minnesota, 2008).

Preface
Introduction: Migrant Lives and the Promise of Documentation

Part I. Ordinary Identifications and Unseen America
1. “We See What We Know”: Migrant Labor and the Place of Pictures
2. The Border’s Frame: Between Poughkeepsie and La Ciénega

Part II. Documentary, Self-Representation, and “Collaborations” in the U.S.–Mexico Borderlands
3. Visible Frictions: The Border Film Project and the “Spectacle of Surveillance”
4. Refusing Disposability: Representational Strategies in Maquilápolis: City of Factories

Part III. Counter-Optics: Disruptions in the Field of the Visible
5. Disappearance and Counter-Spectacle in Sanctuary City / Ciudad Santuario, 1989–2009
6. Reconfiguring Documentation: Mobility, Counter-Visibility, and (Un)Documented Activism
Conclusion: Counter-Representational Acts

Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 27
Verlagsort Minnesota
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Allgemeine Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-5179-0023-9 / 1517900239
ISBN-13 978-1-5179-0023-6 / 9781517900236
Zustand Neuware
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