Deportations and the threat of removal are choreographic strategies of the nation-state's ever-growing monopoly of movement through border securitization and immigration enforcement, which persists into the twenty-first century. While literature and the visual arts have received critical and popular attention by considering forced family separations, dance remains overlooked. Analyzing dance performances that relate directly to deportation teaches us not only about the painful impact of forced removal: it instructs us to decode, move and maintain relationships as aliens and citizens amid the increasing control of motion in the United States and the cruel joke offered by a nation of immigrants.

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在 David Herrera 的 TOUCH 中编排驱逐出境


驱逐出境和驱逐威胁是民族国家通过边境证券化和移民执法对流动日益增长的垄断的精心策划的策略，这种策略一直持续到 21 世纪。虽然文学和视觉艺术通过考虑被迫家庭分离而受到批评和大众的关注，但舞蹈仍然被忽视。分析与驱逐出境直接相关的舞蹈表演不仅让我们了解了强制驱逐出境的痛苦影响：它还指导我们在美国对行动的日益控制以及移民国家提供的残酷笑话中，作为外国人和公民解码、移动和维持关系。