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Topic: Migrant Imaginaries

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A person with brown skin pushes a cleaning cart in front of a colorful painting by Henri Matisse.

Redefining Maintenance Art through Migrant Imaginaries: Jay Lynn Gomez’s Aesthetics of Labor

María Eugenia López-García

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