Unsettling

The El Paso Massacre, Resurgent White Nationalism, and the Us-Mexico Border
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-4214-4616-5
Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press

Buch, Englisch, 296 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 550 g

Analyzes how border and immigration enforcement culminated in a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas.

Honorable Mention for the American Ethnological Society Senior Book Prize

On August 3, 2019, a far-right extremist committed a deadly mass shooting at a major shopping center in El Paso, Texas, a city on the border of the United States and Mexico. In Unsettling, Gilberto Rosas situates this devastating shooting as the latest unsettling consequence of our border crisis and currents of deeply rooted white nationalism embedded in the United States.

Tracing strict immigration policies and inhumane border treatment from the Clinton era through Democratic and Republican administrations alike, Rosas shows how the rhetoric around these policies helped lead to the Trump administration's brutal crackdown on migration—and the massacre in El Paso. Rosas draws on poignant stories and compelling testimonies from workers in immigrant justice organizations, federal public defenders, immigration attorneys, and human rights activists to document the cruelties and indignities inflicted on border crossers.

Borders, as sites of crossings and spaces long inhabited by marginalized populations, generate deep anxiety across much of the contemporary world. Rosas demonstrates how the Trump administration amplified and weaponized immigration and border policy, including family separation, torture, and murder. None of this dehumanization and violence was inevitable, however. The border zone in El Paso (which translates to "the Pass") was once a very different place, one marked by frequent and inconsequential crossings to and from both sides—and with more humane immigration policies, it could become that once again.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rosas, Gilberto

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Migrations- & Minderheitenpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Kindling
Interlude: White Supremacy in El Paso before August 3, 2019 by Diana Martinez
The Lloronx
Witnessing Torture
Witnessing in Brown
Grief and Border Crossing Rage
On the Banality of Crossing
Selected Interview and Testimonies
Virginia Raymond Interview
Statement of Barbara Hines, JD
Declaration of Luis H. Zayas, PhD
Father Robert Mosher Interview
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Rosas, Gilberto
Gilberto Rosas (CHAMPAIGN, IL) is an associate professor of anthropology and Latina/o studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Barrio Libre: Criminalizing States and Delinquent Refusals of the New Frontier.