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The Delusion of Borders

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The Delusion of Borders

On Migrants, Abundance, and Manufactured Scarcity

Roxane Gay
Sep 23, 2021
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The Delusion of Borders

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Politicians love to invoke the idea of borders in service of a scarcity doctrine, as if we need to hoard and defend what we have within these borders from all the bad actors beyond our borders who want to take what is rightfully ours. Of course, the “we” here is primarily middle-class and wealthy, white folks. Middle-America. The people riddled by “econ…

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