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Disappearing Rooms: The Hidden Theaters of Immigration Law

datacite.subject.fos oecd::Social sciences
dc.contributor.author Castañeda, Michelle
dc.date.accessioned 2023-07-26T07:09:00Z
dc.date.available 2023-07-26T07:09:00Z
dc.date.issued 2023
dc.description Publisher: Duke University Press; License: CC-BY-NC; Link: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.2775915; Pages: 198
dc.description.abstract In Disappearing Rooms Michelle Castañeda lays bare the criminalization of race enacted every day in US immigration courts and detention centers. She uses a performance studies perspective to show how the theatrical concept of mise-en-scène 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 people 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
dc.identifier.isbn 978-1-47809-356-5
dc.identifier.uri http://repository.vlu.edu.vn:443/handle/123456789/6509
dc.language.iso en_US
dc.subject American Studies
dc.subject Latin American Studies
dc.subject Sociology
dc.title Disappearing Rooms: The Hidden Theaters of Immigration Law
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