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- Title
Hacking the Border: Undocumented Migration and Technologies of Resistance in Alex Rivera's Sleep Dealer and Digital Media.
- Authors
Straile-Costa, Paula
- Abstract
Peruvian-American filmmaker Alex Rivera uses film and webbased media to document immigrant life in the U.S. and the network of transnational connections that result from displacement. Rivera's web-based documentaries, themselves subversive uses of technology, critique neoliberalism and the hyper-vigilance and violence under which we live while also pointing to the creativity, ingenuity, and technological savvy of the 21st century clandestine migrant to invent ever new forms of resistance. This study situates Rivera's 2008 feature-length film, Sleep Dealer, in the context of U.S.-Mexico border films and the current trend in antiglobalization, digitally mediated activism. Radical action happens in Sleep Dealer as a result of technological advances that create solidarity between people of vastly different, but interconnected, social, political and geographical positions. Rivera's work disrupts the image of the undocumented immigrant, bringing it more in line with the 21st century realities that inspire us all to get connected and fight, take part in the global coalitions working for justice.
- Subjects
UNITED States; UNDOCUMENTED immigrants; TECHNOLOGY; DIGITAL media; OFFSHORE assembly industry
- Publication
Theory in Action, 2020, Vol 13, Issue 2, p54
- ISSN
1937-0229
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3798/tia.1937-0237.2021