Citations:rape tree

English citations of rape tree

2015, Nancy A. Naples, Jennifer Bickham Mendez, Border Politics: Social Movements, Collective Identities, and Globalization, NYU Press, →ISBN, page 49:
I returned home to the Midwest still speculating about the rhetoric and reality of rape trees. Genuinely disturbed about the possibility that they actually existed but also intellectually curious about the power of this discourse to […]
2016 April 15, Amy Lind, Marianne H. Marchand, Feminist (Im)Mobilities in Fortress(ing) North America: Rights, Citizenships, and Identities in Transnational Perspective, Routledge, →ISBN:
“Lone Star Diary,” an anti-immigration website, describes “rape trees” as follows: “After coyotes get the women across the border, safely on US soil, they gang rape them to show they have total control over them.
2019 October 18, Tore Bjørgo, Miroslav Mareš, Vigilantism against Migrants and Minorities (OPEN ACCESS), Routledge, →ISBN:
Located in places known as “lay up sites” where illegal immigrants camp out before making the final leg of their “invasion,” the “rape trees” are believed to be places where the “coyote,” the guide for the illegal immigrants on their […]
2018 November 6, Wendy A. Vogt, Lives in Transit: Violence and Intimacy on the Migrant Journey, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 168:
The idea of rape trees constructs migrant women as victims and migrant men as hypersexual criminals and smugglers who rape their own women and who can only be stopped through increased enforcement. Not only does such discourse make […]
2012, William R. Daniel, One If by Land: What Every American Needs to Know about Our Border, Wheatmark, Inc., →ISBN, page 19:
Today, rape trees are present on many ranches in southern Arizona. People unfamiliar with the border are astounded at stories of the rape trees. Some believe they are urban legends. Confirming the stories are ranchers, Border Patrol […]

2017 October 31, Harel Shapira, Waiting for José: The Minutemen's Pursuit of America, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 116:
“Pardon my language, but that's what's called a rape tree.” We move closer to the tree. “What the coyotes do is they take the women they're with,” Legolas says, almost like a tour guide, “and they rape them.” […]
2015, Nancy A. Naples, Jennifer Bickham Mendez, Border Politics: Social Movements, Collective Identities, and Globalization, NYU Press, →ISBN, page 49:
An essay circulating in the conservative blogosphere, however, shed further light on the rape tree discourse and its articulation with the broader nationalist project in which the Minutemen are implicated. In “The Botany of Illegal […]
2016 April 15, Amy Lind, Marianne H. Marchand, Feminist (Im)Mobilities in Fortress(ing) North America: Rights, Citizenships, and Identities in Transnational Perspective, Routledge, →ISBN, page 111:
For any decent, law-abiding American, to see a rape tree is to gaze upon the face of the enemy of civilization. To see the blood-stained ground beneath them is to behold the faces of their victims. The “Lone Star Diary” (Vanderboegh […]
2018 May 31, Jim Johnson, Once More to Die, Wildside Press LLC, →ISBN, page 189:
The funny thing? The three rapist and killers had tossed the women's underwear into the bare branches of the tree like some kind of fucking flag. Now they call it a 'rape tree.' Jesus fucking Christ, what a scene.
2010 September 13, Darrell Ankarlo, Illegals: The Unacceptable Cost of America's Failure to Control Its Borders, Thomas Nelson, →ISBN, page 173:
“Tell me about the rape tree. What does it signify? “Well, what it says is that you have smugglers working in cahoots with bandits, and what they'll do, once they rob people, either on the south side of the border or on the north side […]
2019 October 18, Tore Bjørgo, Miroslav Mareš, Vigilantism against Migrants and Minorities (OPEN ACCESS), Routledge, →ISBN:
... before making the final leg of their “invasion,” the “rape trees” are believed to be places where the “coyote,” the guide for the illegal immigrants on their journey, rapes women who are traveling in the group. The “rape tree” is […]