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Why Trump’s wall with Mexico is so popular, and why it won’t work<\/h1>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n
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\n\n \n The logic behind building a wall is centuries old. But can concrete solve the complex problems the U.S. is facing today?\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n By<\/span>David Cook Mart\u00edn, Professor of Sociology and Assistant Vice President of Global Education, Grinnell College<\/strong>\n \n January 26, 2017<\/span>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Donald Trump tweeted on Jan. 6 that \u201cany money spent on building the Great Wall (for the sake of speed), will be paid back by Mexico later.\u201d\u00a0The Economist<\/a>\u00a0reports that 40 countries have built fences since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Thirty of these were built since 9\/11; 15 were built in 2015.<\/p>\n

The United States already has about\u00a0650 miles<\/a>\u00a0of wall along the border with Mexico. Hungary\u00a0built<\/a>\u00a0a wall on the Serbian border in 2015, and is erecting barriers on its borders with Romania and Croatia to hinder the entrance of refugees. Spain \u2013 an important link in Europe\u2019s southern border \u2013 built fences in its enclaves of Ceuta and in Melilla (northern Morocco) to thwart African immigration and smuggling.<\/p>\n

My\u00a0research<\/a>\u00a0focuses on why countries build legal and physical walls, especially in the Americas. The logic of walls \u2013 creating a spatial separation between people \u2013 predates the current craze. It\u2019s part of a broader logic of nation-building that humans have used for over three centuries.<\/p>\n

This strategy is politically appealing for its simplicity, but it misunderstands the problems of globalization and migration it aims to address. Building walls has rarely has achieved its intended effect, and may result in wasted resources and lost opportunities for the United States.<\/p>\n

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Logic behind walls<\/h3>\n

People in countries like the United States and Britain are uneasy about what they perceive as falling economic fortunes, and outsiders who threaten a way of life. Erecting paper or concrete walls to protect the national economy, jobs and culture is a strategy that has strong appeal. British Prime Minister Theresa May recently referred to the Brexit plan as a way to regain control of Britain\u2019s borders from\u00a0Europe, and to \u201cbuild a stronger Britain.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\nNewspaper caricature of Chinese man, 1882.<\/span>\u00a0Library of Congress Prints and Photographs<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

In U.S. history, building paper and concrete walls resulted in episodes that today are widely viewed by\u00a0historians\u00a0as inconsistent with our better democratic angels.<\/p>\n

Among the first paper, or legal, walls erected in the U.S. were the Chinese Exclusion Acts, which limited the entry of Asian immigrants, as well as their eligibility for citizenship, beginning in 1882. What the late political scientist Aristide Zolberg called \u201cThe Great Wall against China\u201d did not come down until 1943, and did only then because the U.S. needed\u00a0China\u2019s support<\/a>\u00a0in the war against fascism.<\/p>\n

For 220 years, the U.S. discriminated against prospective immigrants and citizens on the\u00a0basis of race<\/a>. Although the United States was among the first countries to implement this strategy of excluding by race, all other countries in the Americas, Australia, New Zealand and southern Africa had\u00a0similar laws and policies<\/a>. In the U.S., this approach led to policies such as Chinese exclusions, the Nationality Quotas Act (which selected immigrants by ethno-racial origins), Japanese internment and closing doors to Jewish refugees fleeing murderous Nazi persecution.<\/p>\n

Most countries used discrimination by origin to build their nation. It allowed political elites to choose which immigrants were suitable as workers, or as citizens. For example, in the U.S., Chinese immigrants were seen as suitable as workers who did dirty, demeaning and dangerous jobs, but not as full members of the nation.<\/p>\n

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Rise and fall of walls<\/h3>\n

My\u00a0work<\/a>\u00a0with David FitzGerald describes how blatant discrimination by race in immigration and nationality law eventually came to an end\u00a0in the Americas<\/a>, including in the United States. This marked a decline in wall-building policy, though not of the underlying racism which surfaced in other policy areas.<\/p>\n

The United States and other powerful, primarily white countries needed the support of countries in Latin America, Asia and Africa to wage wars against fascism, and later communism. The U.S. and its allies could not easily ask for support from the countries whose citizens they excluded on racial grounds.<\/p>\n

Reluctantly, the U.S. and Canada ended their overtly discriminatory immigration and nationality laws in the 1960s \u2013 much later than other countries in the Americas. The fall of paper walls against particular groups resulted in a\u00a0dramatic demographic transformation<\/a>. In the 1950s, immigrants to the United States were 90 percent European and 3 percent Asian. By 2011, 48 percent were Asian and 13 percent were European.<\/p>\n

The face of the nation was transformed, and \u201cAmericans\u201d confronted questions about who was a full member. Was it those who belonged to a particular ethnoracial group? Or, was it those who subscribed to civic ideals of democracy?<\/p>\n

The demographic changes that have happened since the demise of the Nationality Quotas Act in 1965 have again raised these\u00a0questions among whites<\/a>\u00a0in the political mainstream. Immigrants are settling in \u201cnew destinations<\/a>\u201d \u2013 areas primarily in the South and Midwest that had experienced little migration until the 1990s. Calls to revive the logic of walls have become louder in those areas.<\/p>\n

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No easy fix<\/h3>\n

Building a wall does not address the complexities of unauthorized migration, or the economic woes of America\u2019s middle class.<\/p>\n

For instance, as many as\u00a0half<\/a>\u00a0of unauthorized immigrants in the United States are people who overstay their visas, not border crossers. Barriers also result in more deaths because people try to cross the border at the most inhospitable and unwalled places. The barriers in place now have generated billions of dollars of\u00a0federal expenditures<\/a>\u00a0for border security and investment.<\/p>\n

Working- and middle-class Americans are also feeling a vague unease about their place in the economy. Rhetoric that identifies specific culprits \u2013 immigrants and international trade \u2013 is very appealing. So are simple, concrete solutions.<\/p>\n

But walls to limit mobility or trade are too simple a solution to a complex problem. Today\u2019s economies are more linked by exchanges of data, goods and services between countries than at any time in the past. Workers have also moved between countries, even if with greater regulation than\u00a0in the past<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The effects of global income inequality have been felt differently among groups. Economist\u00a0Branko Milanovic\u2019s research<\/a>\u00a0shows that during the most intense period of globalization, from 1988 to 2008, people in Asia and in the top 1 percent of global earners experienced the highest real income growth. Meanwhile, people in the lower- and middle-income strata in Western Europe, North America and Oceania experienced no growth.<\/p>\n

The demographic shifts described, the perceived loss of political advantages among whites and stagnant incomes among working- and middle-class people in the United States are hard realities. No wall can change these facts.<\/p>\n

Most importantly, walling the world distracts citizens and policymakers from complex problems. Extreme economic inequality, global conflict and environmental decline surpass the borders and capacities of any single country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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David Cook Mart\u00edn<\/a>, Professor of Sociology and Assistant Vice President of Global Education,\u00a0Grinnell College<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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About the author<\/strong><\/p>\n

David Cook-Mart\u00edn is a Professor of Sociology at Grinnell College, and Assistant Vice President for Global Education. He also oversees the Institute for Global Engagement. His work as a political sociologist focuses on understanding migration, race, ethnicity, law, and citizenship in an international field of power. He is author of The Scramble for Citizens: Dual Nationality and State Competition for Immigrants (Stanford University Press 2013: ASA\u2019s Thomas & Znaniecki Best Book on International Migration Award 2014), and co-author with David FitzGerald of Culling the Masses: The Democratic Origins of Racist Immigration Policy in the Americas (Harvard University Press 2014: APSA\u2019s Best Book on Migration and Citizenship 2015, ASA\u2019s Thomas and Znaniecki Best Book on International Migration 2015, ASA\u2019s Best Scholarly Contribution to Political Sociology). David has published articles and chapters on transnational religious networks, ethnic return migration, and Latin American migrations to Europe, and is a member of the Scholar\u2019s Strategy Network. David is a visiting researcher with the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).<\/p>\n

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