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Author Schreiber, Rebecca Mina, author.
Title The undocumented everyday : migrant lives and the politics of visibility / Rebecca M. Schreiber.
Publisher Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2018]


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Descript xvi, 370 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Contents Preface -- Introduction : Migrant Lives and the Promise of Documentation -- Part I. Ordinary Identifications and Unseen America. "We See What We Know" : Migrant Labor and the Place of Pictures -- The Border's Frame : Between Poughkeepsie and La Ciénega -- Part II. Documentary, Self-Representation, and "Collaborations" in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. Visible Frictions : The Border Film Project and the "Spectacle of Surveillance" -- Refusing Disposability : Representational Strategies in Maquilápolis : City of Factories -- Part III. Counter-Optics : Disruptions in the Field of the Visible. Disappearance and Counter-Spectacle in Sanctuary City/Ciudad Santuario, 1989-2009 -- Reconfiguring Documentation : Mobility, Counter-Visibility, and (Un)Documented Activism -- Conclusion : Counter-Representational Acts.
Note "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"-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN 9781517900236 paperback
1517900239 paperback
9781517900229 hardcover
1517900220 hardcover
9781452956381 electronic book
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Author Schreiber, Rebecca Mina, author.
Subject Undocumented immigrants -- Political activity -- United States.
Mexican Americans -- Political activity.
Central American Americans -- Political activity.
United States.
Descript xvi, 370 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Content text txt
Media unmediated n
Carrier volume nc
Contents Preface -- Introduction : Migrant Lives and the Promise of Documentation -- Part I. Ordinary Identifications and Unseen America. "We See What We Know" : Migrant Labor and the Place of Pictures -- The Border's Frame : Between Poughkeepsie and La Ciénega -- Part II. Documentary, Self-Representation, and "Collaborations" in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. Visible Frictions : The Border Film Project and the "Spectacle of Surveillance" -- Refusing Disposability : Representational Strategies in Maquilápolis : City of Factories -- Part III. Counter-Optics : Disruptions in the Field of the Visible. Disappearance and Counter-Spectacle in Sanctuary City/Ciudad Santuario, 1989-2009 -- Reconfiguring Documentation : Mobility, Counter-Visibility, and (Un)Documented Activism -- Conclusion : Counter-Representational Acts.
Note "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"-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN 9781517900236 paperback
1517900239 paperback
9781517900229 hardcover
1517900220 hardcover
9781452956381 electronic book
Author Schreiber, Rebecca Mina, author.
Subject Undocumented immigrants -- Political activity -- United States.
Mexican Americans -- Political activity.
Central American Americans -- Political activity.
United States.
LOCATION SHELVED AT LOAN TYPE STATUS
 BJL 4th Floor  JV6483 .S28  8 WEEK LOAN  AVAILABLE

Subject Undocumented immigrants -- Political activity -- United States.
Mexican Americans -- Political activity.
Central American Americans -- Political activity.
United States.
Descript xvi, 370 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Content text txt
Media unmediated n
Carrier volume nc
Contents Preface -- Introduction : Migrant Lives and the Promise of Documentation -- Part I. Ordinary Identifications and Unseen America. "We See What We Know" : Migrant Labor and the Place of Pictures -- The Border's Frame : Between Poughkeepsie and La Ciénega -- Part II. Documentary, Self-Representation, and "Collaborations" in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. Visible Frictions : The Border Film Project and the "Spectacle of Surveillance" -- Refusing Disposability : Representational Strategies in Maquilápolis : City of Factories -- Part III. Counter-Optics : Disruptions in the Field of the Visible. Disappearance and Counter-Spectacle in Sanctuary City/Ciudad Santuario, 1989-2009 -- Reconfiguring Documentation : Mobility, Counter-Visibility, and (Un)Documented Activism -- Conclusion : Counter-Representational Acts.
Note "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"-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN 9781517900236 paperback
1517900239 paperback
9781517900229 hardcover
1517900220 hardcover
9781452956381 electronic book

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