Living Within Invisibility An Analysis of the Construction of Undocumented in the U.S: Case Study of Los Angeles
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Authors
Nogueron, Carmen
Issue Date
2018
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Presentation
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en_US
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Abstract
This paper is not attempting to capture the one authentic
undocumented Latinx labor experience in Los Angles, instead I
recognize that the choice to migrate is not an individual one. It is
forced upon by state factors like foreign economic policy of the
United States, and discriminatory city planning policies. Once
immigrants are living in the U.S. they are further susceptible to state
and city policies that enact violence through urban and industrial
development that position them as inferior to whiteness. By laying out
the historical political process I emphasize the role the United States
government and their capitalist motivated constituents have in
disciplining the bodies of undocumented Latinx laborers through
strategies of domination that work to benefit the state. The capitalistic
motivations of the state create international economic policies where
in Los Angeles, paired with racist urban development work to
ostracize undocumented Latinx from the city’s larger narrative.
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1 broadside. 48"W x 36"H
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Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College
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