Created Image: "Admitted at: Calexico, Calif."

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Zárate, Salvador. 2019. "Created Image: 'Admitted at: Calexico, Calif.'" In Toxic Softscapes, created by Salvador Zárate. In Visualizing Toxic Subjects Digital Exhibit, curated by James Adams and Kim Fortun. The Center for Ethnography. March. 

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Juan Zárate's Bracero Identification card visualizes:

  • How immigration regimes implement photographic visualization to discipline labor.
  • How the Alien Contract Card, a state visual product, served to subject workers to a regime of documentation and simultaneous anonymity.
  • How the creation of laboring subjects is part of a system that implements toxics to maximize the accumulation of agro-capital and industrialized food production.
  • How toxicity persists across social worlds. 

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