Articulating Aliens: Constructing the Migrant in American Discourse

This book examines the successive collectives of migrant others who are excluded from the US, as well as the myriad ways that popular discourses interact to code particular desired and undesired national subjects. This colorful, genealogical analysis travels the gamut of US history from the 1790 Naturalization Act to today, and evokes a range of alien others from Chinese railroad workers of the late nineteenth century to today's migrant 'caravans'. In order to highlight transformations to the alien migrant subjectivity over time, Sevier draws on diverse discourses where alien others are found. These include popular tales about 'problem' animals, as well as ideas about aliens from 'outer' space. Theorizing that such discourses interact to produce wide-reaching political and material effects, Sevier considers a broad array of media from legal statutes to street celebrations and presidential tweets. Analyzing across disparate genres and taking a long historical view offers a broad picture of how the migrant subjectivity is produced and reproduced in the US. **Black and White version**

• | Author: Holly Sevier
• | Publisher: Independently published
• | Publication Date: October 26, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 265 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1695245652
• | ISBN-13: 9781695245655