Drawing Deportation : Art and Resistance among Immigrant Children / Silvia Rodriguez Vega.
Rodriguez Vega, Silvia, author.
2023
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Title Drawing Deportation : Art and Resistance among Immigrant Children / Silvia Rodriguez Vega.
Author Rodriguez Vega, Silvia, author.
ISBN 9781479810475
DOI https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479810475.001.0001
Published New York, NY : New York University Press, [2023]
Copyright ©2023
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource : 18 b/w illustrations38 color illustrations
Item Number 10.18574/nyu/9781479810475.001.0001 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification 371.826/912
Summary Illustrates how the children of immigrants use art to grapple with issues of citizenship, state violence, and belonging Young immigrant children often do not have the words to express how their lives are shaped by issues of immigration, legal status, and state-sanctioned violence. Yet they are able to communicate its effects on them using art. Based on ten years of work with immigrant children as young as six years old in Arizona and California- and featuring an analysis of three hundred drawings, theater performances, and family interviews-Silvia Rodriguez Vega provides accounts of children's challenges with deportation and family separation during the Obama and Trump administrations. While much of the literature on immigrant children depicts them as passive, when viewed through this lens they appear as agents of their own stories. The volume provides key insights into how immigrant children in both states presented creative, out-of-the-box, powerful solutions to the dilemmas that anti-immigrant rhetoric and harsh immigration laws present. Through art, they demonstrated a righteous indignation against societal violence, dehumanization, and death as a tool for navigating a racist, anti-immigrant society. When children are the agents of their own stories, they can reimagine destructive situations in ways that adults sometimes cannot, offering us alternatives and hope for a better future. At once devastating and revelatory, Drawing Deportation provides a roadmap for how art can provide a safe and necessary space for vulnerable populations to assert their humanity in a world that would rather divest them of it.
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EBOOK PACKAGE Political Science 2023 English
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Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction: From Caged Childhoods to Caged Children
1 Policies: The Constricted Lives of Immigrant Children
2 Fear "We Are Trapped, Like in a Cage"
3 Response: Children in Arizona
4 Resistance: Children in California
5 Resilience: Art-Healing Praxis and Possibilities for Restoration
Conclusion: Art as an Offering
Acknowledgments
Appendix: Overview of Methodology
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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