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Images of Illegalized Immigration Towards a Critical Iconology of Politics Christine Bischoff, Francesca Falk, Sylvia Kafehsy
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Image (Transcript (Firm)) ; v. 9.
- Image
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Visual Culture.
- Immigration.
- Illegalization.
- Iconology.
- Politics.
- Image.
- Migration.
- Visual Studies.
- Cultural Studies.
- Fine Arts.
- Local Subjects:
- Visual Culture.
- Immigration.
- Illegalization.
- Iconology.
- Politics.
- Image.
- Migration.
- Visual Studies.
- Cultural Studies.
- Fine Arts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (181 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Bischoff et al. (eds.), Illegalized Immigration Towards a Critical Iconology of Politics
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2014
- Language Note:
- English
- Biography/History:
- Christine Bischoff (M.A.) teaches cultural studies at the University of Basel. Her research focus is on visual anthropology, migration, transnationalism and sociocultural mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion.
- Francesca Falk (PhD) teaches at the University of Basel and is a Research Associate at the Institute for Critical Theory at the Zurich University of the Arts. Her areas of special interest are illegalized immigration, postcolonialism, image and history, political theory and border studies.
- Sylvia Kafehsy (M.A.) is an art historian and a curator of contemporary art. Her fields of specialization include the visual culture of illegalization, international urban development, pornography/prostitution and censorship.
- 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.
- Reviewed in:ProgrammZeitung, 1 (2011)Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft (zfm), 5 (2011), Nanna HeidenreichTelebasel, Telebar, 10.01.2011, Mirjam JauslinJournal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 1-2 (2012), Saffia Elisa ShaukatBaslerstab, 09.12.2010, Aline Wanner
- »While a great deal of work has been produced on illegal immigration, this publication focuses on two important and original dimensions. Imagery of immigrants structures public perceptions and political debates through its symbolic and material dimensions. Secondly, it is important to deconstruct the ›illegalising visual process‹ generated by sterotypes.«
- Reviewed in:Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 1-2 (2012), Saffia Elisa Shaukat
- Contents:
- 1 Contents 5 Introduction 7 Migration, Law, and the Image: Beyond the Veil of Ignorance 13 Milieus of Illegality 31 The Making of "Illegality": Strategies of Illegalizing Social Outsiders 47 Copying Camouflage 57 Images of Victims in Trafficking in Women 71 Invasion, Infection, Invisibility: An Iconology of Illegalized Immigration 83 Voice-Over Image 101 Masking, Blurring, Replacing: Can the Undocumented Migrant Have a Face in Film? 111 Border: The Videographic Traces by Laura Waddington as a Cinematographic Memorial 129 Politics, Representation, Visibility: Bruno Serralongue at the Cité Nationale de l'Histoire de l'Immigration 143 The Image versus the Map: the Ceuta Border 155 Who is a Refugee-Strategies of Visibilization in the Neighbourhood of a Refugee Reception Camp and a Detention Centre 167 Editors and Authors 177 179
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9783839415375
- 3839415373
- OCLC:
- 900418259
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