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In/visibility, Mobility, and Making Do in Contemporary Latina/o Migrant Rhetorics
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In/visibility, Mobility, and Making Do in Contemporary Latina/o Migrant Rhetorics
Yazar:
Casas, Rubén, author.
ISBN:
9780438159433
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1 electronic resource (221 pages)
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Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 79-11(E), Section: A.
Advisors: Christa J. Olson; Morris Young Committee members: Robert Asen; Micheal Bernard-Donals; Kate Vieira.
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This dissertation examines the rhetorical valences of in/visibility in undocumented Latina/o migrants' everyday lives. I argue for an expanded conceptualization of Burke's identification that accounts not only those instances in which undocumented migrants enter into identifications with others, but also those in which they opt to remain unseen in order to continue being in and moving through the U.S. without getting caught. This expansion of identification allows rhetorical scholars to see and study how rhetoric is engaged through negotiations of in/visibility, as opposed to seeing only (and prescribing) visibility politics as the means to gain rhetorical agency.
Here I study migrants talking to (and showing themselves) to other migrants online, in sites and spaces where migrants are able to remain anonymous or give as much or as little identifying information as they want. In these sites migrants talk about their daily lives and about policy proposals that target them as either victims to be saved, or a problem to be solved. My analysis focuses on how migrants engage both in/visibility to make a place and a way for themselves within disempowering contexts.
After establishing the theoretical basis for linking in/visibility, identification, and mobility in the introduction, I analyze how migrants engage in non-identification when refusing to take out the driver's licenses offered to them. In this first chapter I focus on how migrants assess the risks of visibility and how they often opt to engage in invisibility instead. In the second chapter I examine how migrant day laborers are reframing identification through their microblogging on VozMob, concluding that their documentation of everyday, mundane life allows them to re-show and re-present themselves to each other in ways that counter the disempowering representations they are often subjected to. In the final chapter I analyze the "dollar vans" of New York City, and how these exemplify the nuanced courting and negotiation of in/visibility that their migrant operators and riders value. In the final chapter and conclusion, I further demonstrate that it possible and ethical to study vulnerable subjects without asking them to show themselves either for our benefit or in exchange for rights.
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School code: 0262
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