GLBL ST 191 Chapter Notes - Chapter Fools Banished from the Kingdom: Remapping Geographies of Gang Violence between the Americas (Los Angeles and San Salvador) By Elana Zilberg: Urban Studies, Transnationalism, Transnationality
Document Summary
Fools banished from the kingdom: remapping geographies of gang violence between the. This essay explores how the policing, incarceration, and deportation of salvadoran immigrant youth are reshaping the parameters of urban experience between los angeles and san salvador. It argues that these disciplinary governmental practices have transformed the geographies of belonging, exclusion, and citizenship between the once putatively separate cultural and political spheres of the united states and. These efforts to reassert national sovereignty through zero-tolerance policing strategies as they combine with the growing intersection between criminal and immigration law, only, and most ironically, induce and reproduce transnational flows. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted with deported youth and young adults, the essay focuses on the crucial place of the city and of the local police beat in the production of their emergent transnational subjectivities. The experiences of these immigrant youth indicate that the complex flows and the multiple geopolitical scales of analysis at work in los.
