The U.S.-Mexico Border as a Crisis of Social Reproduction

Daniel Morales offers insights on the Labor and Political Economy (LPE) Project blog on the “crisis” along the U.S./Mexico border.  His thesis:

“What we have, then, is the staging of a crisis by Republican politicians, with Democrats either actively assisting them in this endeavor or sitting in the audience, suspending disbelief. To understand this performance, we need to view it as part of the GOP’s pursuit of a suite of violent hierarchy-enforcing projects, including recent assaults on the LGBTQ+ community, women, K-12 education, affirmative action, and universities. These various projects all seek to address the increasing difficulty of reproducing in the next generation the settler colonial mindset, which, in various forms, has pervaded American society since colonization.”

KJ