1st Edition

Political Protest and Undocumented Immigrant Youth (Re-) framing Testimonio

By Stefanie Quakernack Copyright 2018
232 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

232 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

232 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

What does it mean to be a young undocumented immigrant? Current public debate on undocumented immigration provokes discussion worldwide, and it is estimated that there are more than 11.1 million undocumented immigrants in the US, yet what it really means to be an undocumented immigrant appears less explicitly delineated in the debate. This interdisciplinary volume applies theories from... Read more

Chapter 1 - Introduction: Digital Narratives of Undocumented Immigrant Youth

Chapter 2 - The Movement, Politics, And Media Logic in YouTube Narratives Of Undocumented Youth

Chapter 3 - Re-Framing Testimonio: Mediatizing Political Storytelling on YouTube

Chapter 4 - Stories of the Dispossessed

Chapter 5 - Visual Dispossession(S) and the Dynamics of the Performative: Moving Image

Chapter 6 - Activism in Soundscape: Voice, Noises, And Music in Digital Narratives

Chapter 7 - Intermedial Spaces: Written Language, Static Image, And Props

Chapter 8 - Conclusions

Biography

As of spring 2018, Stefanie Quakernack is a postdoctoral researcher and project manager at Ruhr-University Bochum. Her fields of research are immigration, education, and language. Up until 2017, Stefanie Quakernack was a lecturer and doctoral research fellow in the American Studies department at Bielefeld University, where she studied fields of U.S. immigration at the intersections of Media, Political, Literary, and Cultural Studies. Much of the research presented in this book originates in the field research that she carried out in Chicago, Illinois, in spring 2014."