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Publication details [#65326]

Gonzalez, Alberto and Amy N. Heuman. 2018. Trump’s Essentialist Border Rhetoric: Racial Identities and Dangerous Liminalities. Journal of Intercultural Communication Research 47 (4) : 326–342.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

immigrant | political speech | race | racism | rhetoric

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

This paper centers on Trump's essentialist border rhetoric that serves to cast Mexican refugees, (im)migrants, US DREAMers, and undocumented persons in the US -particularly those coming from south of the US frontier- as social burdens who menace the nation-state's sovereignty.