Exhibition looks into the world of immigration

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‘Certain images of migrants almost have become clichés in our globalized world of perpetual human movement: Mexican families sloshing across the Rio Grande in the dead of night, young African men huddled over dull campfires in Spanish detainee camps,’ writes the L.A. Times’ Reed Johnson.

‘But other, less commonplace images challenge preconceived ideas of what it means to be an undocumented worker, ‘illegal alien’ or simply a person with no fixed home or identity, stranded between shifting borders.’

Narrated slideshow:

‘As illustrated by ‘Laberinto de Miradas’ (Labyrinth of Glances), a provocative photo and video exhibition that’s on display here at the Cultural Center of Spain through August, immigration today wears many faces. It’s a middle-class Argentine woman, driven into exile by her country’s 2001 peso collapse. A Cuban man who bears the scars of jail time served for trying to flee to Miami. Hundreds of Brazilians of mixed ethnicities, body types and attitudes, mostly economic refugees from other parts of the country, all crammed into a ramshackle São Paulo apartment building, striving to co-exist.’

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-- Deborah Bonello in Mexico City