Immobility is a form of social death in the mobility age

Evidence

In an age where mobility is the key to any economic activity, educational opportunity, and social relation, the Wall is the structure of death, symbolically and socially, economically and existentially. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 637

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the Wall’s function as ‘structure of death’ — a useful conceptual framing for immobility as lethal in an age of mobility.