Visions of Invasion

<i>Visions of Invasion: Alien Affects, Cinema, and Citizenship in Settler Colonies </i>explores how the US government mobilizes media and surveillance technologies to operate a highly networked, multidimensional system for controlling migrants. Author Michael Lechuga focuses on three arenas where a citizenship control assemblage manufactures alienhood: Hollywood extraterrestrial invasion film, federal antimigration and border security legislation, and various immigration enforcement protocols implemented along the Mexico-United States border. <p/> Building on rhetorical studies, settler colonial studies, and media studies, <i>Visions of Invasion</i> offers a glimpse at how the processes of alien-making contribute to an ongoing settler colonial project in the US. Lechuga demonstrates that popular films--<i>The War of the Worlds</i>, <i>Predator</i>, <i>Men in Black</i>, and more--participate in the production of migrants as subjective terrorists, felons, and other noncitizen personae vi