Playing at border crossing in a Mexican indigenous community...seriously

Tamara Underiner

doi:10.1162/DRAM_a_00068

Playing at border crossing in a Mexican indigenous community...seriously

Tamara Underiner

New American Film School

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Deep within Mexico, an indigenous community offers tourists the chance to take on the roles of immigrants in a simulated border crossing experience, opening itself to charges that it is a "training camp" for illegal immigration to the United States. On the contrary, it functions as a highly politicized community performance aimed at cultural preservation and assertion, which are both threatened and enabled by the scenario of migration.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	11-32
Number of pages	22
Journal	TDR - The Drama Review - A Journal of Performance Studies
Volume	55
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1162/DRAM_a_00068
State	Published - Jun 2011

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Literature and Literary Theory

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