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Visible Borders, Invisible Economies
2022
Overview
Globalization in the United States can seem paradoxical: free
trade coincides with fortification of the southern border, while
immigration is reimagined as a national-security threat. US
politics turn aggressively against Latinx migrants and subjects
even as post-NAFTA markets become thoroughly reliant on migrant and
racialized workers. But in fact, there is no incongruity here.
Rather, anti-immigrant politics reflect a strategy whereby capital
uses specialized forms of violence to create a reserve army of the
living, laboring dead.
Visible Borders, Invisible Economies turns to Latinx
literature, photography, and films that render this unseen scheme
shockingly vivid. Works such as Valeria Luiselli's Tell Me How
It Ends and Alex Rivera's Sleep Dealer crystallize
the experience of Latinx subjects and migrants subjugated to social
death, their political existence erased by disenfranchisement and
racist violence while their bodies still toil in behalf of
corporate profits. In Kristy L. Ulibarri's telling, art clarifies
what power obscures: the national-security state performs
anti-immigrant and xenophobic politics that substitute cathartic
nationalism for protections from the free market while ensuring
maximal corporate profits through the manufacture of disposable
migrant labor.
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Subject
/ Government, Resistance to-United States
/ Latin Americans in literature
/ Latin Americans in motion pictures
/ Latin Americans-United States-Economic conditions
/ Latin Americans-United States-Social conditions
/ Latin Americans-Violence against-United States
/ LITERARY CRITICISM / American / Hispanic American
/ National security-Social aspects-United States
/ Neoliberalism and literature
/ Neoliberalism and literature-United States
/ Neoliberalism-Social aspects-United States
/ PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
/ SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Hispanic American Studies
ISBN
9781477326015, 1477326014, 1477326022, 9781477326022, 9781477326572, 147732657X
