Margaret E. Dorsey and Miguel Díaz-Barriga argue that border wall construction along the U.S.–Mexico border manifests transformations in citizenship practices that are aimed not only at keeping migrants out but also enmeshing citizens into a wider politics of exclusion.

Preface  ix
Acknowledgments  xiii
Introduction  1
1. The Politics of Bisection: A Visual Ethnography of Rebordering and Rajando  15
2. Not Walls, Bridges: Rituals of Necrocitizenship  49
3. Necrocitizenship Enacted: Raping White Women and Consolidating the State of Exception  79
4. Bleeding like the State: The Open Veins of Latin America  108
5. Necrocitizenship Kills  118
Conclusion  135
Epilogue  141
Notes  145
References  159
Index  171

Margaret E. Dorsey is Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Richmond.

Miguel Díaz-Barriga is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Richmond.