Kristy L. Ulibarri is an assistant professor in the Department of English and Literary Arts at the University of Denver.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Imagination in the Age of National Security and Market NeoliberalizationPart I. Documenting the Living Dead Chapter 1. Games of Enterprise and Security in Luis Urrea, Valeria Luiselli, and Karla Cornejo VillavicencioChapter 2. Documenting the US-Mexico Border: Photography, Movement, and ParadoxChapter 3. Latinx Realisms: The Cinematic Borderworlds of Josefina LÓpez, David Riker, and Alex RiveraPart II. Imagining the Living Dead Chapter 4. Markets of Resurrection: Cat Ghosts, Aztec Zombies, and the Living Dead EconomyChapter 5. Speculative Governances of the Dead: The Underclass, Underworld, and UndercommonsCoda: Dreaming of Deportation, or, When Everything “Goes South”NotesBibliographyIndex

Ulibarri offers a model for reading other Latinx literature in the context of rising immigrant detentions . . .  The interplay of border visibility and economic invisibility reveals a politically charged truth about the disposability of immigrant life hidden within the auspices of border/national security. Further, these truths are visible in the imagined world of art be it prose, photography, or film. (Latin@ Literatures) Ubarri’s analysis of Latinx narratives...is expansive and illuminating...The book’s strength is its uncompromisingly interdisciplinary approach, which is essential for understanding contemporary migration narratives. (Journal of Borderland Studies) Ulibarri's textured readings...illuminate the hidden economy elided by mainstream immigration discourse...[and her] frame of necropolitics bridges Latinx criticism to related concepts from fields of queer, Black, and affect theory. (Western American Literature) Challenging conventional perspectives and misconceptions, Visible Borders, Invisible Economies redefines the Latinx subject as a formidable force. Ulibarri understands the United States’ economic dependence on migrant labor and confronts the legislative barriers that hinder opportunities for Latinx people. However, the book’s analysis goes beyond historical, political, and economic aspects, positioning them as supplements tothe Latinx narratives in literature, photography, and film. Rather than presenting a unilateral perspective on Latinx agency and biopower, the book highlights the reciprocal dependence between the United States and migrant communities. (Aztlán)

Kristy L. Ulibarri is an assistant professor in the Department of English and Literary Arts at the University of Denver.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Imagination in the Age of National Security and Market NeoliberalizationPart I. Documenting the Living Dead Chapter 1. Games of Enterprise and Security in Luis Urrea, Valeria Luiselli, and Karla Cornejo VillavicencioChapter 2. Documenting the US-Mexico Border: Photography, Movement, and ParadoxChapter 3. Latinx Realisms: The Cinematic Borderworlds of Josefina LÓpez, David Riker, and Alex RiveraPart II. Imagining the Living Dead Chapter 4. Markets of Resurrection: Cat Ghosts, Aztec Zombies, and the Living Dead EconomyChapter 5. Speculative Governances of the Dead: The Underclass, Underworld, and UndercommonsCoda: Dreaming of Deportation, or, When Everything “Goes South”NotesBibliographyIndex

Ulibarri offers a model for reading other Latinx literature in the context of rising immigrant detentions . . .  The interplay of border visibility and economic invisibility reveals a politically charged truth about the disposability of immigrant life hidden within the auspices of border/national security. Further, these truths are visible in the imagined world of art be it prose, photography, or film. (Latin@ Literatures) Ubarri’s analysis of Latinx narratives...is expansive and illuminating...The book’s strength is its uncompromisingly interdisciplinary approach, which is essential for understanding contemporary migration narratives. (Journal of Borderland Studies) Ulibarri's textured readings...illuminate the hidden economy elided by mainstream immigration discourse...[and her] frame of necropolitics bridges Latinx criticism to related concepts from fields of queer, Black, and affect theory. (Western American Literature) Challenging conventional perspectives and misconceptions, Visible Borders, Invisible Economies redefines the Latinx subject as a formidable force. Ulibarri understands the United States’ economic dependence on migrant labor and confronts the legislative barriers that hinder opportunities for Latinx people. However, the book’s analysis goes beyond historical, political, and economic aspects, positioning them as supplements tothe Latinx narratives in literature, photography, and film. Rather than presenting a unilateral perspective on Latinx agency and biopower, the book highlights the reciprocal dependence between the United States and migrant communities. (Aztlán)

Kristy L. Ulibarri is an assistant professor in the Department of English and Literary Arts at the University of Denver.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Imagination in the Age of National Security and Market NeoliberalizationPart I. Documenting the Living Dead Chapter 1. Games of Enterprise and Security in Luis Urrea, Valeria Luiselli, and Karla Cornejo VillavicencioChapter 2. Documenting the US-Mexico Border: Photography, Movement, and ParadoxChapter 3. Latinx Realisms: The Cinematic Borderworlds of Josefina LÓpez, David Riker, and Alex RiveraPart II. Imagining the Living Dead Chapter 4. Markets of Resurrection: Cat Ghosts, Aztec Zombies, and the Living Dead EconomyChapter 5. Speculative Governances of the Dead: The Underclass, Underworld, and UndercommonsCoda: Dreaming of Deportation, or, When Everything “Goes South”NotesBibliographyIndex

Ulibarri offers a model for reading other Latinx literature in the context of rising immigrant detentions . . .  The interplay of border visibility and economic invisibility reveals a politically charged truth about the disposability of immigrant life hidden within the auspices of border/national security. Further, these truths are visible in the imagined world of art be it prose, photography, or film. (Latin@ Literatures) Ubarri’s analysis of Latinx narratives...is expansive and illuminating...The book’s strength is its uncompromisingly interdisciplinary approach, which is essential for understanding contemporary migration narratives. (Journal of Borderland Studies) Ulibarri's textured readings...illuminate the hidden economy elided by mainstream immigration discourse...[and her] frame of necropolitics bridges Latinx criticism to related concepts from fields of queer, Black, and affect theory. (Western American Literature) Challenging conventional perspectives and misconceptions, Visible Borders, Invisible Economies redefines the Latinx subject as a formidable force. Ulibarri understands the United States’ economic dependence on migrant labor and confronts the legislative barriers that hinder opportunities for Latinx people. However, the book’s analysis goes beyond historical, political, and economic aspects, positioning them as supplements tothe Latinx narratives in literature, photography, and film. Rather than presenting a unilateral perspective on Latinx agency and biopower, the book highlights the reciprocal dependence between the United States and migrant communities. (Aztlán)