“We need a fence!”: The spectacle of border militarization in Israel and in the USA
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[1] Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales
Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales
París, Francia
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- Localización: Revista Interdisciplinar da Mobilidade Humana: REMHU, ISSN-e 2237-9843, Vol. 30, Nº. 64, 2022 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Multiplicação de muros: (i)mobilidades, violações e resistências)
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
This article presents an analysis of the contemporary phenomenon commonly referred to as the “multiplication of walls”, namely the militarization of borderlands. It considers border enforcement as a policy solution about mobility portrayed as “undesirable”, propounded by politicians, security professionals and citizens’ groups for their own political benefit and interest. The “wall” is thus apprehended through a political spectacle intended for fenced-in citizens. To dissect the wall spectacle, the article resorts to an international comparison in two different geopolitical cases. The comparison specifically focuses on mobilizations in favor of “border/security fences” in Israel from 2001 and Arizona (USA) from 2010. It identifies three analogous political operations led by these actors (problematization of mobility, securitization into a military response and publicization of pro-fence narratives), and thus characterizes the manufacture of border militarization from a bottom-up perspective, while illustrating their national variations.
