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Disappearing Rooms - The Hidden Theaters of Immigration Law (Paperback)
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Disappearing Rooms - The Hidden Theaters of Immigration Law (Paperback)
Series: Dissident Acts
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In Disappearing Rooms Michelle Castaneda 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-scene offers new
insights about immigration law and the absurdist dynamics of
carceral space. Castaneda 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. Castaneda'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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