Abstract In 2018, amid US president Donald Trump’s ongoing calls to “build the wall” along the US-Mexico border, protestors in the Mexican border city of Tijuana took up his incendiary rhetoric and turned it against the caravans of Central Americans on their way to seek asylum in the United States. This essay explores the deeper logics of recent anti-migrant sentiment in Mexico by unpacking a promotional video that was popular there during Trump’s campaign. Though the video ostensibly controverts Trump’s call to “build the wall,” I argue, it ultimately reinforces an underlying distinction between the “we” it convokes and the undocumented labor migrant to the United States. The essay thus seeks the roots of contemporary Mexican xenophobia in older dynamics of class distinction within Mexico. Tijuana, finally, helps grasp how the border exacerbates these dynamics, and why US racism can make distinctions among Mexicans and among Latin Americans fiercer and more pernicious.

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自己去边界/去边界化

摘要 2018 年，在美国总统唐纳德·特朗普不断呼吁沿美墨边境“修建隔离墙”的情况下，墨西哥边境城市蒂华纳的抗议者拿起了他的煽动性言论，反对中美洲大篷车前往在美国寻求庇护。本文通过解开特朗普竞选期间在墨西哥流行的宣传视频，探讨了墨西哥近期反移民情绪的深层逻辑。我认为，虽然该视频表面上反驳了特朗普“建造隔离墙”的呼吁，但它最终强化了它召集的“我们”与前往美国的无证劳工移民之间的根本区别。因此，这篇文章在墨西哥内部阶级分化的旧动态中寻找当代墨西哥仇外心理的根源。蒂华纳，终于，