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Grief and Border‐Crossing Rage
Author(s) -
Rosas Gilberto
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
anthropology and humanism
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.153
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 1548-1409
pISSN - 1559-9167
DOI - 10.1111/anhu.12328
Subject(s) - grief , immigration , rage (emotion) , criminology , reflexivity , nationalism , white (mutation) , gender studies , border crossing , political science , sociology , political economy , law , politics , anthropology , psychology , social psychology , biochemistry , chemistry , psychotherapist , gene
SUMMARY In 2019, a White Nationalist shooting occurred in El Paso in the wake of Trump’s administration’s efforts to dramatically curtail immigration, asylum‐seeking, and other kinds of border crossing. The essay draws on the reflexive anthropology of Renato Rosaldo and related bodies of theory to examine the shooting. Its linkages to US border and immigration policy, including family separation, crystallize both how unsettling mass movements of people evident at borders may be and the significance of extremist, if not settler, violence to contemporary liberal societies.