The Utopian/Dystopian American Dream: Immigration and Labor in Latina/o Science FictionMain MenuThe Utopian/Dystopian American Dream: Immigration and Labor in Latina/o Science FictionA digital companion by Jeanelle D. HorcasitasWhat is the American Dream?Utopian and Dystopian EntanglementsCritical Dystopias and Future-HistoriesHistories of DystopiaUtopian Dreams Fulfilled by Enclosure & RemovalInspections at the U.S.-Mexico BorderThe ReservationsSleep Dealer FactoriesLabor Practices in DystopiaWorking on el traqueDemystifying "The Supply"The Dangers of Being a Non-CitizenErasure of Historical and Cultural MemoriesGetting ConnectedMoving Toward a Critical DystopiaReclaiming a History Threatened by ErasureA Future with a PastWriting Ourselves Into the FutureJeanelle D. Horcasitasece5ecc19b7350e99e5e88a083713bd56ddb89bf
The Reservations
12017-01-31T18:51:37-08:00Jeanelle D. Horcasitasece5ecc19b7350e99e5e88a083713bd56ddb89bf147872This illustration is from Lunar Braceros 2125-2148. It shows the structure of the Reservations and what it was like to live on one from a child's perspective.plain2017-02-09T21:08:00-08:00Jeanelle D. Horcasitasece5ecc19b7350e99e5e88a083713bd56ddb89bf
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1media/Screen Shot 2017-01-31 at 6.50.56 PM.pngmedia/Screen Shot 2017-01-31 at 6.50.56 PM.png2017-01-31T17:31:10-08:00The Reservations5plain2017-02-09T20:33:12-08:00 In the 22nd century, Lydia and her family suffer from extreme prejudice because they are perceived as a nuisance to Cali-Texas, and are forced into imprisonment within the walls of the Reservations. Like Don Chipote, they suffer from the government and corporations’ utopian vision to enclose and segregate those “undesirable” people from the rest of the country. “Reslifers” living on the Reservations are confined within this space, surrounded by a wire fence and a panopticon tower monitoring them to ensure that no one escapes. In this future, the government and transnational corporations that control the people, economic and environmental resources, and even the moon are the creators of this dystopia, and those on the Reservations are living entirely in a dystopian world. Lydia explains the inception of the Reservations that were, “first created around 2090 and had become fully functional by 2100,” and expanded because of, “massive unemployment and world-wide migrations. These new ‘vagrants’ or ‘migros,’ as they were called back then, were forced into the Reservations” (Pita and Sánchez 15). As with Don Chipote in the 20th century, the 22nd century has also faced a mass migration movement; however, in this case those populations are completely enclosed by the Reservations with little to no chance of escape.