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This dissertation analyzes a group of literary and filmic works published between 2009 and 2021 that address contemporary migration experiences, focusing on the formal strategies used to figure the migrant subject. This analysis explores how literature and film respond aesthetically and politically to contemporary migration and examines the construction of migrant subjectivities in a context governed by neoliberal principles that promote the free movement of goods, but in which migrants repeatedly encounter obstacles to crossing the border or staying in the United States. In this dissertation, I argue that the studied materials reveal a blurring between the factual and the fictional, creating hybrid zones where testimonial narratives incorporate fictional elements, and fictional texts draw from documented experiences and specific sociopolitical realities. This porosity between genres mirrors the complexity of physical borders—a space where identity, cultural dimensions, and language intertwine to challenge more rigid categorizations. Like a kaleidoscope, where each turn offers a new shape and perspective, each chapter is dedicated to a different migrant subject. My dissertation challenges reductive views of migrants as mere victims or oppressed subjects. I argue that the contemporary cultural materials I analyze offer a new perspective—one that portrays migrants as active agents who create, collaborate, and survive through practices of care, solidarity, and tenderness.