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Playing at Border Crossing in a Mexican Indigenous Community...Seriously
- TDR: The Drama Review
- The MIT Press
- Volume 55, Number 2, Summer 2011 (T210)
- pp. 11-32
- Article
- Additional Information
Deep within Mexico, an indigenous community offers tourists the chance to take on the roles of immigrants in a simulated border crossing experience, opening itself to charges that it is a "training camp" for illegal immigration to the United States. On the contrary, it functions as a highly politicized community performance aimed at cultural preservation and assertion, which are both threatened and enabled by the scenario of migration.