Fencing in DemocracyBorder walls permeate our world, with more than thirty nation states constructing them. Anthropologists Margaret E. Dorsey and Miguel Daz Barriga argue that border wall construction manifests transformations in citizenship practices that are aimed not only at keeping migrants out but also at enmeshing citizens into a wider politics of exclusion. For a decade, the authors studied the U. S. Mexico border wall constructed by the Department of Homeland