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Cinematic encounters and frontiers of precarity
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Through an analysis of Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's film La Promesse' (1996) and Diego Quemada-Díez’s The Golden Dream (2013), this chapter explores how undocumented migrants are ruthlessly exploited and exposed to death in cities–London and Antwerp–and on the road, traveling from Guatemala through Mexico in an attempt to make it into the U.S. Engaged in critical commentaries on the contemporary migratory condition articulated in global cinema, the chapter composes diverse migratory scenarios to render visible the national, urban, and racial frontiers of human encounter in which racialized migrant bodies experience the precarities dealt by the protective and predatory practices of official national formations and opportunistic criminal enterprises, respectively.

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On geo-analysis and the aesthetics of precarity

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