https://publications-prairial.fr/representations/index.php?id=1863 Entrées d’index fr 0 https://publications-prairial.fr/representations/index.php?id=1845 The topic of undocumented immigration in literature and cinema is particularly relevant during the uncertainty of Donald Trump’s administration, as sanctuary cities remain under attack. One of the most sympathetic undocumented immigrant groups is the so‑called “DREAMers”, due to their support of the DREAM Act. These are young adults who were brought to the U.S. as undocumented children by their parents. They have grown up in U.S. society, and very often don’t even remember their countries of origin. Many of them speak little or none of their parent’s native language and have been educated in public and private U.S. schools. This essay focuses on young undocumented immigrant students by primarily analyzing the nonfiction texts: Joshua Davis’s Spare Parts: Four Undocumented Teenagers, One Ugly Robot, and the Battle for the American Dream, and Julissa Arce’s My Underground American Dream memoir. I also discuss the Spare Parts film, and Jose Antonio Vargas’s documentary, Documented. Since migration theory has largely failed to recognize the importance of race and racism in the process of migrant integration, my analysis incorporates theories that center on dismantling western binaries to create hybrid, new non‑linear, third spaces of subaltern enunciation, which are valuable in the examination of the always fluid notion of undocumented immigration. Peruvian sociologist Aníbal Quijano’s concept of “coloniality of power”, Argentinian–Mexican philosopher Enrique Dussel’s “principle of solidarity”, and Latina theorist Gloria Anzaldúa’s notion of “Nepantla” provide essential decolonial thinking to my analysis on the notion of immigration and citizenship in Latinx literature and cinema. sam., 20 déc. 2025 18:26:35 +0100 ven., 23 janv. 2026 17:57:20 +0100 https://publications-prairial.fr/representations/index.php?id=1845