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dc.contributor.authorMarini, Anna Marta 
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-29T13:58:42Z
dc.date.available2021-07-29T13:58:42Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.bibliographicCitationREDEN: revista española de estudios norteamericanos, n.2 (2020), pp. 49-58, ISSN 2695-4168es_ES
dc.identifier.issn2695-4168
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10017/49274
dc.description.abstractIn 2018, Daniel Sawka directed independent feature length movie Icebox,which narrates the story of a 12-year old Honduran boy whose parents push him to migrate northbound in order to escape forced gang recruitment. Without giving way to ideological bias, Sawka reproduces his journey, providing a useful tool for raising awareness on some of the key matters related to the ongoing debate on US immigration and border policies. The operation of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities and the detention of Central American children at the US-Mexico border represent a transnational gray area in the extension of sovereign power, turning the border itself in a kenotic space of exception legitimated by the construction of a specific public discourse on immigration and national boundaries. Furthermore, the movie describes the existence of the evident normalization of inhumanity intrinsic to the detention process and praxis, leading to dehumanization of detainees and a suspension—both individual and public—of questioning the tasks performed by border enforcement agencies from an ethical or moral perspective.en
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dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/*
dc.subjectBorderlandsen
dc.subjectState of exceptionen
dc.subjectFilm studiesen
dc.subjectBorder studiesen
dc.subjectCentral American immigrationen
dc.title"Icebox" and the Exceptionality Intrinsic to Institutional Violence on the US-Mexico Borderen
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleen
dc.subject.ecienciaHumanidadeses_ES
dc.subject.ecienciaHumanitiesen
dc.subject.ecienciaCiencias Socialeses_ES
dc.subject.ecienciaSocial Sciencesen
dc.rights.accessRightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen
dc.identifier.publicationtitleREDEN: revista española de estudios norteamericanoses_ES
dc.identifier.publicationlastpage58
dc.identifier.publicationissue2
dc.identifier.publicationfirstpage49


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