Download or read book Frontera Sin Barreras written by Mario Enriques Giron and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Border policies such as Operation Gatekeeper and the Merida Initiative have shifted border security and enforcement beyond the US-Mexico border, creating new configurations of the border that move from static to traveling. This thesis analyzes the cultural productions of this recent configuration of the border, arguing that a traveling border as a signifier commodifies the migrant body even in the representative form while also providing an imagined migrant voice. Sympathetic texts such as Cantú’s The Line Becomes a River and Oscar Martinez’s The Beast illustrate the complex ways that the border travels affectively and physically to make the author’s complicit in representing the migrant as they discuss the dangers of the border landscape, ultimately making the migrant indistinguishable from the criminal. The traveling border also generates representations of migrant agency—such as those created through the social media presence of Pueblo sin Fronteras of the Migrant Caravan in early 2018—that create imagined forms of kinship and global citizenship focused on rights-based activism. However, digital storytelling projects such as Humanizando la Deportacion question the motives of such groups as their human rights narratives overshadow the realities of the migrant plight, commodifying their representations for their own means. The thesis interrogates the complicity of these narratives in enforcing a traveling border that stifles an imagined migrant agency through commodification, all the while providing the possibility for it.