This liminality is only compounded when an individual perishes in their in-between, which is what is happening here in Brooks County. One could consider many stages of liminality in the physical and mental movement from one’s home country into the US, or any other county: in between their homeland and the border of the next, in between the border and their destination, in between their destination and freedom. While Turner was describing the Ndembu people in Zambia, I feel the idea of liminality can be aptly applied to the crisis at the border. Here, he describes a “liminal” period in which the subject of interest is in between different steps of their rite of passage, and are no longer held in the same regard as they were before their rite stated, but have not yet reached their post-rite status. In his 1967 book The Forest of Symbols, Victor Turner wrote a chapter titled “ Betwixt and Between: The Liminal Period in Rites of Passage” (Turner 1967).
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