Divided by the Wall (eBook)
316 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-97450-0 (ISBN)
The construction of a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border—whether to build it or not—has become a hot-button issue in contemporary America. A recent impasse over funding a wall caused the longest government shutdown in U.S. history, sharpening partisan divisions across the nation. In the Arizona borderlands, groups of predominantly white American citizens have been mobilizing for decades—some help undocumented immigrants bypass governmental detection, while others help law enforcement agents to apprehend immigrants. Activists on both the left and the right mobilize without an immediate personal connection to the issue at hand, many doubting that their actions can bring about the long-term change they desire. Why, then, do they engage in immigration and border politics so passionately?
Divided by the Wall offers a one-of-a-kind comparative study of progressive pro-immigrant activists and their conservative immigration-restrictionist opponents. Using twenty months of ethnographic research with five grassroots organizations, Emine Fidan Elcioglu shows how immigration politics has become a substitute for struggles around class inequality among white Americans. She demonstrates how activists mobilized not only to change the rules of immigration but also to experience a change in themselves. Elcioglu finds that the variation in social class and intersectional identity across the two sides mapped onto disparate concerns about state power. As activists strategized ways to transform the scope of the state’s power, they also tried to carve out self-transformative roles for themselves. Provocative and even-handed, Divided by the Wall challenges our understanding of immigration politics in times of growing inequality and insecurity.
Acknowledgments
Introduction: State Effects and the Politics
of Immigration in Arizona
PART I USING IMMIGRATION POLITICS TO REMAKE ONESELF
1. Arizona and the Making of an Ambiguous Border
2. Being Progressive, but Privileged
3. Being White, but Working Class
PART II CONTENDING WITH CHALLENGES FROM THE OTHER SIDE
4. The “Other” Border Crosser: How Pro-immigrant Activists Grapple with the Topic
of Cartels
5. “We Work with Border Patrol”: How Restrictionists Struggle with the Topic
of Racism
PART III PRACTICING SYMBOLIC POLITICS
6. Weakening the State: The Pro-immigrant Strategy
7. Strengthening the State: The Restrictionist Strategy
Conclusion: Going beyond the Wall
Appendix 1: Methods
Appendix 2: Interviewees
Notes
References
Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 4.8.2020 |
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Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik |
Schlagworte | activism • Activist • advocates • Arizona • arizona senate bill 1070 • arpaiositos • Borderlands • Border Patrol • Border politics • Borders • border wall • Cartels • Class Inequality • engineers • ethnography • humanitarians • ICE • Illegal Immigration • immigrant activists • Immigration • immigration restrictionist • Nonfiction • political engagement • Politics • Poverty • privilege • progressive politics • pro immigration • Racism • sb1070 • social issues • Social Science • soldiers • State Power • undocumented immigrants • white americans • Working Class |
ISBN-10 | 0-520-97450-6 / 0520974506 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-520-97450-0 / 9780520974500 |
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