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

by Miguel Díaz-Barriga and Margaret E. Dorsey

Book Overview

Border walls permeate our world, with more than thirty nation-states constructing them. Anthropologists Margaret E. Dorsey and Miguel D az-Barriga argue that border wall construction manifests transformations in citizenship practices that are aimed not only at keeping migrants out but also at enmeshing citizens into a wider politics of exclusion. For a decade, the authors studied the U.S.-Mexico border wall constructed by the Department of Homeland...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478006935
• ISBN13: 9781478006930
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"