{"product_id":"9781477326015-visible-borders-invisible-economie","title":"Visible Borders, Invisible Economies","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLiving Death in Latinx Narratives. A thorough examination of the political and economic exploitation of Latinx subjects, migrants, and workers through the lens of Latinx literature, photography, and film. \u003cp\u003eGlobalization 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eVisible Borders, Invisible Economies\u003c\/i\u003e turns to Latinx literature, photography, and films that render this unseen scheme shockingly vivid. Works such as Valeria Luiselli’s \u003ci\u003eTell Me How It Ends\u003c\/i\u003e and Alex Rivera’s \u003ci\u003eSleep Dealer \u003c\/i\u003ecrystallize 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40823197794401,"sku":"9781477326015","price":99.48,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/0fed7fa89a80d9e0b73e406b149bb482_0a1c8315-cda0-413a-9f09-1141d295cb4a.png?v=1683302788","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781477326015-visible-borders-invisible-economie","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}