Undocumented Acts
Migration, Community and Audience in Two Chicana Plays
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3852403 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elizabeth Jacobs (0000-0002-3905-6832) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 277-288 |
| Publication date | 2016-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative American Studies An International Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1477-5700 • E-ISSN: 1741-2676 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14775700.2016.1267372 |
| OpenAlex | W2567575329 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 14 |
The 1980 Refugee Act endeavoured to provide effective settlement for refugees entering the United States. But most South American refugees escaping from dictatorships and civil wars were denied political asylum. This article explores the representation of migration and border crossing in Latina (1980 Sánchez-Scott, Milcha, with Jeremy Blahnik. 1980. “Latina.” In Necessary Theatre Six Plays about the Chicano Experience, edited by Jorge Huerta, 85–141. Houston: Arte Publico Press. [Google Scholar]), a play by Milcha Sánchez Scott that stages the difficulties associated with this journey. In 2010 Senate Bill 1070, one of the strictest anti-immigration legislative acts to be enforced, encouraged racial profiling in the identification of border crossers in the state of Arizona. Detained in the Desert (2011), a play by Josefina Lόpez, is a Chicana response to the passing of SB 1070, and contributes to a deeper understanding of the fraught experiences of migrant women’s lives. The study of the plays places an emphasis on transnational community building and audience engagement and builds on a range of recent critical work by border theorists and scholars such as Alicia Schmidt Camacho and Deborah Boehm, and theatre and performance critics such as Diana Taylor
Criminology · Dictatorship · Immigration · Legislature · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Refugee · Sociology · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Cuban History and Society · Gender Studies · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law
Violence Against Latina Immigrants
Feminism on the Border
Borderlands/La Frontera
Intimate Migrations
Performing the US Latina and Latino Borderlands
Performance in the Borderlands
Latina Performance
The Central American transnational imaginary
Refugees of the South
The repositioning of citizenship and alienage
The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader
| Highly cited | No |
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