Un camino difícil: Cultural Products about “(Il)legal” (Im)migration (Panel / In-Person)


Standing Session
Spanish and Portuguese / Cultural Studies

Sonia Barrios Tinoco (Seattle University)
barr@****.com (Log-in to reveal)

We invite researchers interested in collectively thinking about, following, and analyzing how (im)migration movements are represented and reflected upon in past or current cultural products.

In a time when many are thinking about building walls, we invite researchers interested in thinking and talking about the journey of “(il)legal” (im)migrants to explore the reasons why people decide to leave their country of origin to build a new life in a foreign one and/or to examine the lives and processes of those already living in a new land without having papers bestowing upon them the status of “citizens.” We welcome papers that focus on cultural products both in Spanish and English.
We invite researchers interested in collectively thinking about, following, and analyzing how (im)migration movements are represented and reflected upon in past or current cultural products.

In a time when many are thinking about building walls, we invite researchers interested in thinking and talking about the journey of “(il)legal” (im)migrants to explore the reasons why people decide to leave their country of origin to build a new life in a foreign one and/or to examine the lives and processes of those already living in a new land without having papers bestowing upon them the status of “citizens.” We welcome papers that focus on cultural products both in Spanish and English.