Discrepancy detected: operationalizing immigration and borderzone policy in papers, please
This article examines how Papers, Please (2013) critiques modern immigration policies by operationalizing immigration law and borderzone security. In the game, the player is an immigration officer at a recently demilitarized zone between two fictionalized countries. Every in-game day, the player dec...
| Άλλοι τίτλοι: | Special Issue: "Democracy Dies Playfully: (Anti-)Democratic Ideas in and Around Video Games" |
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| Τύπος μέσου: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Review |
| Γλώσσα: | Αγγλικά |
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2020
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| Στο/Στη: |
Gamevironments
Έτος: 2020, Τόμος: 13, Σελίδες: 35-63 |
| Κριτική του: | Papers, please (Kocik, David) |
| Τυποποιημένες (ακολουθίες) λέξεων-κλειδιών: | B
USA
/ Μεταναστευτική πολιτική
/ Στρατηγική
/ Μετανάστευση (μοτίβο)
/ Grenzpolizeiliche Kontrolle
/ Βιντεοπαιχνίδι
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| Σημειογραφίες IxTheo: | KBQ Βόρεια Αμερική ΖΒ Κοινωνιολογία ZG Επιστήμη των ΜΜΕ, Ψηφιακότητα, Επιστήμη της επικοινωνίας |
| Άλλες λέξεις-κλειδιά: | B
gamevironments
B Law B Government B Κριτική B Immigration B Democracy B please B papers |
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| Σύνοψη: | This article examines how Papers, Please (2013) critiques modern immigration policies by operationalizing immigration law and borderzone security. In the game, the player is an immigration officer at a recently demilitarized zone between two fictionalized countries. Every in-game day, the player decides which migrants must be admitted, rejected, or detained by comparing increasingly complicated documentation to ever-changing immigration policies. Through a visual and operational emphasis on rules and paperwork, Papers, Please conveys how supposedly fair immigration processes prioritize documentation and order over the lives and rights of individual immigrants. The game also shows how modern governments implement haphazard and reactionary immigration policies through ever-changing rules for the player to follow. By making the player complicit in the systemization of immigration, the game shows how seemingly equitable borderzone policies support daily unethical and dehumanizing treatment of migrants at highly regulated borders. |
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| ISSN: | 2364-382X |
| Περιλαμβάνει: | Enthalten in: Gamevironments
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.26092/elib/401 |