Deportaciones aéreas, securitización audiovisual y construcción sensorial del paisaje fronterizo volátil
Air deportations, audiovisual securitization and the sensory construction of the volatile borderscape
https://doi.org/10.21670/ref.2517175
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deportación, securitización, paisaje fronterizo, paisajes sensorialesResumen
A partir del análisis de un par de videos difundidos en redes sociodigitales por los gobiernos de Estados Unidos y El Salvador, este artículo reflexiona sobre el uso de estrategias audiovisuales para presentar la mano dura contra migrantes venezolanos deportados a El Salvador como tercer país. Con ello, surge la cuestión de si se está ante visualidades que articulan un ensamblaje multilateral de deportaciones aéreas. El texto argumenta que la circulación de estas imágenes no solo securitiza y criminaliza a las poblaciones migrantes por los poderes hegemónicos, sino que representa un esfuerzo por expandir los alcances de un paisaje fronterizo de control más allá del espacio territorial, extendiéndolo a un dominio aéreo-transnacional. Este orden político subsume un imaginario estético-sensorial que espectaculariza la política de la crueldad con la circulación de estos videos.Abstract Based on an analysis of a couple of videos disseminated on social media by the governments of the United States and El Salvador, this article reflects on the use of audiovisual strategies to present an iron fist approach to Venezuelan migrants deported to El Salvador as a third country. This raises the question of whether we are dealing with visual representations that articulate a multilateral assembly of air deportations. The text argues that the circulation of these images not only securitizes and criminalizes migrant populations by hegemonic powers, but also represents an effort to expand the scope of a borderscape of control beyond territorial space, extending it to a transnational air domain. This political order subsumes an aesthetic-sensory imaginary that spectacularizes the politics of cruelty with the circulation of these videos.
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