immigrant power dynamics

His films like 'I, Daniel Blake' and 'Sorry We Missed You' expose the systemic vulnerabilities and power imbalances faced by working-class immigrants and precarious workers.

Works such as 'Shoplifters' and 'Broker' examine how undocumented immigrants and marginalized families navigate survival within rigid social hierarchies and institutional power structures.

Her films including 'The Milk of Sorrow' and 'Madeinusa' interrogate postcolonial power dynamics, indigenous displacement, and how immigrants reclaim agency against historical and contemporary oppression.