Fencing in Democracy : Border Walls, Necrocitizenship, and the Security State /

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"FENCING IN DEMOCRACY is an ethnography examining groups that are usually left out of national discussions about the border wall: the communities living right on the border. Drawing on extensive primary research, the authors argue that a variety of factors, including media narratives, complex p...

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Main Authors: Díaz-Barriga, Miguel, 1960- (Author), Dorsey, Margaret E. (Margaret Ellen), 1973- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2020.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social aspects.
Ethnic relations > Political aspects.
Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Boundaries.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
United States.
North America > Mexican-American Border Region.
Mexico.
États-Unis > Frontieres > Mexique.
Region frontaliere mexicano-americaine > Relations interethniques > Aspect politique.
Region frontaliere mexicano-americaine > Aspect social.
Region frontaliere mexicano-americaine > Aspect politique.
Region frontaliere mexicano-americaine > Émigration et immigration > Aspect social.
Mexico > Boundaries > United States.
United States > Boundaries > Mexico.
Mexican-American Border Region > Ethnic relations > Political aspects.
Mexican-American Border Region > Social aspects.
Mexican-American Border Region > Political aspects.
Mexican-American Border Region > Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"FENCING IN DEMOCRACY is an ethnography examining groups that are usually left out of national discussions about the border wall: the communities living right on the border. Drawing on extensive primary research, the authors argue that a variety of factors, including media narratives, complex political maneuvering, and purposefully marginalizing discourse, have placed border communities in a state of necrocitizenship - a set of citizenship practices produced in response to exclusionary regimes that emphasize death. Throughout the book they show necrocitizenship as operating on three levels; the increasing militarization of border regions, the building of walls along international boundaries, and the privileging of the patriotic subject, one who is willing to die for one's country"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (200 pages): illustrations, maps
ISBN:9781478007470

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