The Undesirables

The Worker as Revenant

“…The most prominent feature of her composite work is a series of paper models and etched drawings which depict the grounding of the MSC Napoli on Branscombe beach in Devon, UK, at the start of 2007. 26 The grounding of the Napoli prompted controversy because it had previously run aground in Singapore, it was too close to the shoreline and traveling at speed in hazardous waters, and the weight of much of its cargo was misreported in an attempt to evade regulation on total weight and excise duty. 27 Figure 3.…”

“…You find an empty packet of cigarettes, and some old clothes, and no sign of them, they're just gone." 32 In this story the representation of the "illegal immigrant" is only possible by tracing their absence. Embodied labor is "visible" in the space that it creates in the containerized infrastructures of global transportation.…”