1st Edition

Migrant Labor and Border Securities in Pop Culture

By Camilla Fojas Copyright 2017
68 Pages
by Routledge

68 Pages
by Routledge

68 Pages
by Routledge

Migrant Labor and Border Securities in Pop Culture explores the conditions for migrant domestic, agricultural, and factory workers as that of continual crisis and examines how the borderlands are a workshop of neoliberalism. These borderland stories present a future of integrated networks in which the border is not just physical but temporal, separating the present time of crisis and migrant... Read more

Introduction: Border Securities, Migrant Labor, and Crisis Capitalism



Chapter One: Border Securities and Unsecure Labor



Chapter Two: Migrant Domestics and Gendered Work in Crisis Capitalism



Chapter Three: Border Futures



Epilogue: Beyond Security

Biography

Camilla Fojas teaches in American Studies and Media Studies at the University of Virginia. Her recent books include Border Bandits: Hollywood on the Southern Frontier (University of Texas Press, 2008), Islands of Empire: Pop Culture and U.S. Power (University of Texas Press, 2014), and Zombies, Migrants, and Queers: Race and Crisis Capitalism in Pop Culture (University of Illinois, 2017).