02280cam a2200277 4500 2553087177 TxAuBib 20250907120000.0 ||||||s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781478024262 1478024267 fd841799-a8fd-48e8-99c2-242703a1bf8c OverDrive (Reserve ID) 10203467 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Castañeda, Michelle. Disappearing Rooms [Libby eBook] : The Hidden Theaters of Immigration Law. Duke University Press, 2023. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. HTML:In <i>Disappearing Rooms</i> Michelle Castañeda 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-scène offers new insights about immigration law and the absurdist dynamics of carceral space. Castañeda 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. Castañeda'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, <i>Disappearing Rooms</i> shines a light into otherwise hidden spaces of law within the contemporary deportation regime.<br /> Duke University of Press Scholars of Color First Book Award Recipient. Multi-Cultural. Nonfiction. Sociology. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2025-09-06 20:00:03. Crabapple, Molly. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=fd841799-a8fd-48e8-99c2-242703a1bf8c&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)