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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
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.