Nepantla Squared by Linda Heidenreich

Author:Linda Heidenreich [Heidenreich, Linda]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: SOC012000 Social Science / Gay Studies, HIS024000 History / Latin America / General, BIO031000 Biography & Autobiography / Lgbt
Publisher: Nebraska

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Nepantler@s of the Sixth Sun

Most significant, however, is the construction of the immigration system in the United States as a way to keep in desirables and to keep out undesirables. The concept of “desirables” in the immigration context is parallel to that of U.S. society in general. People of color, low-income people, lesbian, gay, bisexual people, and transgender people . . . are marginalized in our society whether or not they are immigrants. Thus it logically follows that those immigrants who are already marginalized . . . in our society are further marginalized. This dynamic has proven to be especially powerful during times of “heightened national security.”

—Pooja Gehi, “Struggles from the Margins”

Borders are set up to define the places that are safe and unsafe, to distinguish us from them.

—Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza

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