Immigrant Protest
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- ISBN 9781438453101
- Weight: 431g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 02 Jul 2015
- Publisher: State University of New York Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Explores how political activism, art, and popular culture challenge the discrimination and injustice faced by "illegal" and displaced peoples.
The last decade has witnessed a global explosion of immigrant protests, political mobilizations by irregular migrants and pro-migrant activists. This volume considers the implications of these struggles for critical understandings of citizenship and borders. Scholars, visual and performance artists, and activists explore the ways in which political activism, art, and popular culture can work to challenge the multiple forms of discrimination and injustice faced by "illegal" and displaced peoples. They focus on a wide range of topics, including desire and neo-colonial violence in film, visibility and representation, pedagogical function of protest, and the role of the arts and artists in the explosion of political protests that challenge the precarious nature of migrant life in the Global North. They also examine shifting practices of boundary making and boundary taking, changing meanings and lived experiences of citizenship, arguing for a noborder politics enacted through a "noborder scholarship."
This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to Knowledge Unlatched-an initiative that provides libraries and institutions with a centralized platform to support OA collections and from leading publishing houses and OA initiatives. Learn more at the Knowledge Unlatched website at: https://www.knowledgeunlatched.org/, and access the book online at the SUNY Open Access Repository at http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/7127.
Katarzyna Marciniak is Professor of Transnational Studies at Ohio University. Her books include Alienhood: Citizenship, Exile, and the Logic of Difference and Transnational Feminism in Film and Media. Imogen Tyler is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Lancaster University in England and the author of Revolting Subjects: Social Abjection and Resistance in Neoliberal Britain.
