Convergent exclusionary politics of gender and migration in Trump's re‐election campaign, 2024–2025

Abstract This essay examines how Donald Trump's 2024 presidential campaign and early 2025 executive orders deploy overlapping forms of embodied exclusion to construct a white heteropatriarchal vision of American nationhood. Building on feminist political geography and refugee studies, I analyse how Trump's rhetoric and policies represent an intensification of techniques that render certain bodies as threats to national security. Through examining campaign attacks on trans and LGBTQ rights and inflammatory anti‐refugee rhetoric, I demonstrate how these coordinated exclusions work to normalise state violence against multiple marginalised groups while strategically deploying claims of ‘protecting’ white, cisgender women. The analysis reveals how contemporary far‐right movements combine bodily othering with populist appeals to manufacture consent for restrictive policies. In my conclusion, I draw attention to the emergence of ‘anticipatory care networks’—grassroots efforts to protect refugee families and build solidarity across difference before threatened policies materialise. This research advances feminist political geographic understanding of how far‐right movements deploy ‘convergent exclusionary performativity’ where multiple forms of exclusion do not merely exist in parallel, but actively reinforce and amplify each other through public performance and policy.