GEOG 10 Lecture 3: q3q4
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Discuss the defining and defending of state space, using examples from both lecture and the readings to illustrate how and why borders are communicated, maintained, and enforced. Finally, using specific examples from mae ngai"s impossible subjects, discuss how race and class become fused through contemporary immigration management practices. Territory: is a term used by state to enforce law and to define border. Territory has two dimensions: abstract: definition of territory to enforce power over a region, concept of nationalism: connects people that aren"t really connected. Territory is only the imagined term, no real definition. In a globalized world, to set up borders to define national identity. Ex) mexican border: it doesn"t really solve any problem. Symbol for national identity that show superiority (these people are not part of us) Mexican immigrants came to the states seeking for jobs. Business owners want immigrants because of low income cheap labor mexican class became inferior by their social class.
