Using the U.S. wall at the border with Mexico as a focal point, two
experts examine the global surge of economic and environmental
refugees, presenting a new vision of the relationships between
citizen and migrant in an era of "Juan Crow," which systematically
creates a perpetual undercaste. Winner, National Association for
Ethnic Studies (NAES) Outstanding Book Award, 2017 As increasing
global economic disparities, violence, and climate change provoke a
rising tide of forced migration, many countries and local
communities are responding by building walls-literal and
metaphorical-between citizens and newcomers. Up Against the Wall:
Re-imagining the U.S.-Mexico Border examines the temptation to
construct such walls through a penetrating analysis of the U.S.
wall at the U.S.-Mexico border, as well as investigating the
walling out of Mexicans in local communities. Calling into question
the building of a wall against a friendly neighboring nation, Up
Against the Wall offers an analysis of the differences between
borders and boundaries. This analysis opens the way to envisioning
alternatives to the stark and policed divisions that are imposed by
walls of all kinds. Tracing the consequences of imperialism and
colonization as citizens grapple with new migrant neighbors, the
book paints compelling examples from key locales affected by the
wall-Nogales, Arizona vs. Nogales, Sonora; Tijuana/San Diego; and
the lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas. An extended case study of
Santa Barbara describes the creation of an internal colony in the
aftermath of the U.S. conquest of Mexican land, a history that is
relevant to many U.S. cities and towns. Ranging from human rights
issues in the wake of massive global migration to the role of
national restorative shame in the United States for the treatment
of Mexicans since 1848, the authors delve into the broad
repercussions of the unjust and often tragic consequences of
excluding others through walled structures along with the
withholding of citizenship and full societal inclusion. Through the
lens of a detailed examination of forced migration from Mexico to
the United States, this transdisciplinary text, drawing on
philosophy, psychology, and political theory, opens up multiple
insights into how nations and communities can coexist with more
justice and more compassion.
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