Disappearing Rooms

The Hidden Theaters of Immigration Law

Michelle Castañeda, Molly Crabapple

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Duke University Press
03 April 2023

Migration, immigration & emigration; Hispanic & Latino studies; Immigration law

Series: Dissident Acts

"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 people 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"

By: Michelle Castañeda
Illustrated by: Molly Crabapple
Imprint: Duke University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 295g
ISBN: 9781478019633
ISBN 10: 1478019638
Series: Dissident Acts
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 03 April 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Removal Room: Disappearance and the Practice of Accompaniment 19 2. The Prison-Courtroom: No-Show Justice in Family Detention 56 3. Bring Me the Room: Tragic Recognition and the Right Not to Tell Your Story 91 Coda 129 Notes 135 References 159 Index 177

Michelle Castañeda is Assistant Professor of Performance Studies at New York University. Molly Crabapple is an artist and writer based in New York.

Reviews for Disappearing Rooms: The Hidden Theaters of Immigration Law

"""The book … is a quintessential one in times of increasing hatred towards immigrants. This timely book will help the reader understand the intensity of immigration crises and the need for the growth of a humanitarian world than a world with borders."" -- T.S. Gangothri * Social Identities *"