Fencing in democracy :
necrocitizenship and the US-Mexico border wall /
Miguel Díaz-Barriga and Margaret E. Dorsey.
Description
- Main Author
- Díaz-Barriga, Miguel, 1960-
- Related Names
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Dorsey, Margaret E. (Margaret Ellen), 1973-, author.
Duke University Press.
- Language(s)
- English
- Published
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Durham : Duke University Press, 2020.
- Subjects
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University of South Alabama.
Illegaler Einwanderer.
Grenze.
Grenzgebiet.
Migrationspolitik.
Einwanderungspolitik.
Grenzschutz.
Sicherheitspolitik.
Politische Anthropologie.
Social aspects.
Ethnic relations > Ethnic relations / Political aspects.
Emigration and immigration > Emigration and immigration / Social aspects.
Boundaries.
HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
Mexiko.
United States.
North America > North America / Mexican-American Border Region.
Mexico.
Mexico > Mexico / Boundaries > Mexico / Boundaries / United States.
United States > United States / Boundaries > United States / Boundaries / Mexico.
Mexican-American Border Region > Mexican-American Border Region / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85084485 / Ethnic relations > Mexican-American Border Region / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85084485 / Ethnic relations / Political aspects.
Mexican-American Border Region > Mexican-American Border Region / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85084485 / Social aspects.
Mexican-American Border Region > Mexican-American Border Region / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85084485 / Political aspects.
Mexican-American Border Region > Mexican-American Border Region / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85084485 / Emigration and immigration > Mexican-American Border Region / [0]: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85084485 / Emigration and immigration / Social aspects.
- Summary
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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 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
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xv, 178 pages :
illustrations ;
23 cm.
- ISBN
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1478006056
1478006935
9781478006053
9781478006930
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