(Dis)Enfranchised Intersectionalities: Undocumented Migrant Women and Lesbian Relationships in Angelina Maccarone's Unveiled and Shahar Rozen's Round Trip

Abstract

This article compares the representation of lesbian undocumented women and their relationship with citizen women while highlighting the shifting intersectionalities of vulnerable migrants. Cinematic representations of vulnerable migrations have the potential to reduce distance and create an intimacy and immediacy that makes difficult the task to comfortably accept that people are only members of nameless, faceless groups. Films can, however, also reaffirm stereotypical tropes of victimization and lack of agency through simplifying the migrant experience. The two films discussed here represent different examples of how cinema can be a productive or a reductive means to visualize the largely invisible experience of being lesbian and undocumented. [Article copies available for a fee from The Transformative Studies Institute. E-mail address: journal@transformativestudies.org Website: http://www.transformativestudies.org ©2017 by The Transformative Studies Institute. All rights reserved.]