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Illegalized immigration is a highly iconic topic. The public perception of the current regime for mobility is profoundly shaped by visual and verbal images. As the issue of illegalized immigration is gaining increasing political momentum, the authors feel it is a well-warranted undertaking to analyz...
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transcript Verlag,
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| Publisher Address: | Bielefeld : |
| Publication Dates: |
2014. ©2010 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Image ;
volume 9 |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.14361/transcript.9783839415375 http://www.degruyter.com/doc/cover/9783839415375.jpg |
| Summary: |
Illegalized immigration is a highly iconic topic. The public perception of the current regime for mobility is profoundly shaped by visual and verbal images. As the issue of illegalized immigration is gaining increasing political momentum, the authors feel it is a well-warranted undertaking to analyze the role of images in the creation of illegalization. Their aim is to trace the visual processes that produce these very categories. The authors aim to map out an iconography of illegalized immigration in relation to political, ethical, and aesthetic discourses. They discuss the need to project new images as well as the dangers of giving persons without legal papers an individual face. Illegalization is produced by law, but naturalized through the everyday use of images. The production of law, on the other hand, is also driven by both mental and materialized images. A critical iconology may help us to see these mechanisms. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (178 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9783839415375 (electronic bk.) |
| Index Number: | JV6217 |
| CLC: | D523.8 |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction / Migration, Law, and the Image: Beyond the Veil of Ignorance / Milieus of Illegality / The Making of "Illegality": Strategies of Illegalizing Social Outsiders / Copying Camouflage / Images of Victims in Trafficking in Women / Invasion, Infection, Invisibility: An Iconology of Illegalized Immigration / Voice-Over Image / Masking, Blurring, Replacing: Can the Undocumented Migrant Have a Face in Film? / Border: The Videographic Traces by Laura Waddington as a Cinematographic Memorial / Politics, Representation, Visibility: Bruno Serralongue at the Cit Nationale de l Histoire de l Immigration / The Image versus the Map: the Ceuta Border / Who is a Refugee Strategies of Visibilization in the Neighbourhood of a Refugee Reception Camp and a Detention Centre / Editors and Authors -- Backmatter. |