Bordering the Civic Imaginary: Alienization, Fence Logic, and the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps

Autor/in	DeChaine, D. Robert
Titel	Bordering the Civic Imaginary: Alienization, Fence Logic, and the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps
Quelle	In: Quarterly Journal of Speech, 95 (2009) 1, S.43-65 (23 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0033-5630
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Civil Defense; Logical Thinking; Foreign Countries; Immigrants; Undocumented Immigrants; Immigration; Citizenship; Rhetoric; Mexico; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Zivilschutz; Zivilverteidigung; Ausland; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Illegaler Aufenthalt; Staatsbürgerschaft; Rhetorik; Mexiko; USA
Abstract	Current figurations of the "immigration problem" in the United States challenge our understanding of the rhetoricity of contemporary bordering practices. The public discourse of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps serves to chart the alienization of undocumented migrants and the enactment of alien abjection on the U.S.-Mexico border. Alienization promises an antidote to majoritarian anxieties regarding national disunity in the form of a shoring-up of cultural boundaries that border-crossing subjects render troublesome. Ultimately, the fence logic engendered by groups such as the Minutemen reveals how struggles over the boundaries of citizenship both enable and limit an affect-charged civic imaginary. (Contains 81 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10