Original Article
Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society (2009) 14, 49–57. doi:10.1057/pcs.2008.51
Regression in the construction of the immigrant other
Ricardo C Ainsliea
aDepartment of Educational Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, 1 University Station D-5800, Austin, Texas 78712-5800, USA. E-mail: rico.ainslie@mail.utexas.edu
Abstract
The 2008 Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid on a Postville, Iowa, meatpacking plant revealed deep divisions within the community about local and national immigration policy. Using postings to a newspaper blog following the raid, this paper theorizes about and examines the regressive processes that are often created by the presence of the immigrant other within our communities.
Keywords:
immigration, regression, defenses, polarization, community
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