Imagined Borders/Lived Ambiguity
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Imagined Borders/Lived Ambiguity

Intersections of Repression and Resistance

  1. 239 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Imagined Borders/Lived Ambiguity

Intersections of Repression and Resistance

About this book

Imagined Borders/Lived Ambiguity: Intersections of Repression and Resistance examines the theoretical versatility of the concept of "borders." The impulse to categorize, while present from antiquity in Western culture, has increased in intensity since the advent of the modern age with its corresponding political rise in the ideology of the sovereign nation-state. While immigration is the common mental image Westerners have when discussing borders, immigration is only the tip of the iceberg for this book. The belief in mutually exclusive, clear, and concrete categories creates large swathes of exceptions where people live ambiguous lives nationally, racially, sexually, ethnically, and in terms of gender.Identity is discussed in the book through the lens of borders and ambiguity. The fervor over categorization, best embodied in recent political history by the Trump administration in the United States, is both a desire to identify and control "dangerous" populations, but also creates the very ambiguity categorization is intended to alleviate. The volume weaves together discussions on the subjective meaning-making in ambiguity, policies that create ambiguity, historical creations of ambiguity that persist to the present, and theoretical considerations on the relationship between borders and ambiguity.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction
  4. Chapter One. A Note on How Historical Patterns of American Ideology Led to President Icarus
  5. Chapter Two. Alie(N)ation: A Qualitative Multi-Method Approach to Language, Domination, and Unauthorized Migration
  6. Chapter Three. Incest Rhetorics and Queerphobic Sex Panics
  7. Chapter Four. A Queer Marxian Analysis of the Construction of Race in the United States
  8. Chapter Five. The Keys for Locks: Border Queers/Queer Borders or Community and Possibilities for Identity
  9. Chapter Six. Refusing to Decompose: How Cyber-ojo Makes Indigenous Rituals Palatable to Modern Society
  10. Chapter Seven. US-Mexico Border Control: The Use of Deportation Threats as a Method of Enforcing Control on Residents in South Texas
  11. Chapter Eight. US Immigration Enforcement by Proxy: The Making of a New South-to-South Border between Mexico and Central America
  12. Chapter Nine. Unauthorized Latino/a Migration in an Era of Global Displacement: A Mixed Methods and World-Systems Perspective
  13. Chapter Ten. Assessing Assimilation in the Borderlands: How Rapidly Do Mexican Americans Assimilate?
  14. References
  15. Index
  16. About the Contributors