Across a range of disciplines, scholars have raised questions and theorized mobility. Border rhetoric scholars, for instance, trace the racialized tenor of discourses of mobility as they are figured on to some migrant bodies. In this essay, I argue that rhetorical scholars need to extend discussions of mobility to attend to immobility, or stoppage. Offering a set of questions that can guide rhetorical assessment of stoppage, I think through stoppage as a rhetorical mode of racialization. I locate my argument through two sites of stoppage—the 2018 discourse around family separation and child detention at the U.S./Mexico border and the 2019 reemergence of the AgJobs bill.

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停工与种族化修辞

在众多学科中，学者们提出了问题并提出了理论上的流动性。例如，边防修辞学者追溯了流动性话语的种族化倾向，因为他们被认为是某些移民团体。在本文中，我认为，修辞学者需要扩大关于流动性的讨论，以解决动静或停工。我提出了一系列可以指导对停工进行修辞评估的问题，我认为停工是种族化的一种修辞模式。我的论点来自两个停顿点：2018年关于美国/墨西哥边境家庭分离和儿童拘留的讨论，以及2019年AgJobs法案的重新出现。