"Icebox" and the Exceptionality Intrinsic to Institutional Violence on the US-Mexico Border
Autores
Marini, Anna MartaFecha de publicación
2020Cita bibliográfica
REDEN: revista española de estudios norteamericanos, n.2 (2020), pp. 49-58, ISSN 2695-4168
Palabras clave
Borderlands
State of exception
Film studies
Border studies
Central American immigration
Tipo de documento
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Derechos
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional
Derechos de acceso
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Resumen
In 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.
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