Border enforcement devolves to private groups claiming character-based national belonging.
Evidence
The traditional state function of border enforcement is at least partially abrogated to a private, self-promoted vigilante group. The claim to America is staked as a national one, the belonging to which is implicitly characterological: one is taken to belong because one embodies the characteristics – the character – of presumptive Americans, their rugged individualism, racially coded as white. And public land, the property of the nation, is privatized, becomes symbolically enclosed, closed off, from which the group can expel those taken not to belong. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1759
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Border enforcement devolved onto private vigilantes who read national belonging as white character — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1759; Vigilante border groups embody the neoliberal model of privatized state functions — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1759; Bureaucracies weaponize natural group solidarity into exclusion of designated objects — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 446 (+4 more)
Broader Connections
- Vigilante border groups embody the neoliberal model of privatized state functions
#expands(0.90) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1759 - Borders generate new hierarchies of belonging shaped by immigration control
#expands(0.85) — Luke de Noronha, The conviviality of the overpoliced,…, 31 - Private citizens’ discriminatory acts get reinforced by state security policies
#expands(0.80) - Bureaucracies weaponize natural group solidarity into exclusion of designated objects
#qualifies(0.75) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 446 - Borders could be drawn organically by culture rather than imperial power
#contradicts(0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2468