Disappearing rooms : the hidden theaters of immigration law / Michelle Castañeda ; with illustrations by Molly Crabapple.
"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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2023.
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| Series: | Dissident acts.
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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."-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 186 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781478024262 1478024267 9781478093565 1478093560 |
| DOI: | 10.1215/9781478024262 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on print version record. |