‘I'm Still Not Crossing That’: Borders, Dispossession, and Sovereignty inFrozen River(2008)

Klaus J. Dodds

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Migration, Health, Geopolitics, Historical Geography Spatial and Cultural Studies Migration and Exile Studies

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This paper considers the film Frozen River (2008) for the purpose of considering how the US-Canadian border is dramatised within the context of two women caught up in a illicit trading of migrants via a Native American Reservation. Re-calibrating more mainstream Hollywood's fascination with the United States' southern border, Frozen River usefully focuses attention on two areas that deserve further reflection namely the materiality of borders and border crossings and biopolitics. The paper concludes with some reflections on how borders, biopolitics, dispossession and sovereignty need further theorization by political geographers and other scholars.

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