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Author : Gail Barbara Stewart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 1590183762
Discusses the dissolution of the INS, economic and political impact of U.S. sea and land borders, changing immigration patterns and the future of U.S. borders.
Author : Todd Miller
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784785147
The United States is outsourcing its border patrol abroad—and essentially expanding its borders in the process The twenty-first century has witnessed the rapid hardening of international borders. Security, surveillance, and militarization are widening the chasm between those who travel where they please and those whose movements are restricted. But that is only part of the story. As journalist Todd Miller reveals in Empire of Borders, the nature of US borders has changed. These boundaries have effectively expanded thousands of miles outside of US territory to encircle not simply American land but Washington’s interests. Resources, training, and agents from the United States infiltrate the Caribbean and Central America; they reach across the Canadian border; and they go even farther afield, enforcing the division between Global South and North. The highly publicized focus on a wall between the United States and Mexico misses the bigger picture of strengthening border enforcement around the world. Empire of Borders is a tremendous work of narrative investigative journalism that traces the rise of this border regime. It delves into the practices of “extreme vetting,” which raise the possibility of “ideological” tests and cyber-policing for migrants and visitors, a level of scrutiny that threatens fundamental freedoms and allows, once again, for America’s security concerns to infringe upon the sovereign rights of other nations. In Syria, Guatemala, Kenya, Palestine, Mexico, the Philippines, and elsewhere, Miller finds that borders aren’t making the world safe—they are the frontline in a global war against the poor.
Author : Mathijs Pelkmans
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780801461767
This book, one of the first in English about everyday life in the Republic of Georgia, describes how people construct identity in a rapidly changing border region. Based on extensive ethnographic research, it illuminates the myriad ways residents of the Caucasus have rethought who they are since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Through an exploration of three towns in the southwest corner of Georgia, all of which are situated close to the Turkish frontier, Mathijs Pelkmans shows how social and cultural boundaries took on greater importance in the years of transition, when such divisions were expected to vanish. By tracing the fears, longings, and disillusionment that border dwellers projected on the Iron Curtain, Pelkmans demonstrates how elements of culture formed along and in response to territorial divisions, and how these elements became crucial in attempts to rethink the border after its physical rigidities dissolved in the 1990s. The new boundary-drawing activities had the effect of grounding and reinforcing Soviet constructions of identity, even though they were part of the process of overcoming and dismissing the past. Ultimately, Pelkmans finds that the opening of the border paradoxically inspired a newfound appreciation for the previously despised Iron Curtain as something that had provided protection and was still worth defending.
Author : Matthew Longo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107171787
Borders are changing in response to terrorism and immigration. This book shows why this matters, especially for sovereignty, individual liberty, and citizenship.
Author : Alexander C. Diener,Joshua Hagen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780197549605
This second edition of Borders: A Very Short Introduction challenges the perception of borders as passive lines on a map, revealing them instead to be integral forces in the economic, social, political, and environmental processes that shape our lives.
Author : Javier S. Hidalgo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351383271
States restrict immigration on a massive scale. Governments fortify their borders with walls and fences, authorize border patrols, imprison migrants in detention centers, and deport large numbers of foreigners. Unjust Borders: Individuals and the Ethics of Immigration argues that immigration restrictions are systematically unjust and examines how individual actors should respond to this injustice. Javier Hidalgo maintains that individuals can rightfully resist immigration restrictions and often have strong moral reasons to subvert these laws. This book makes the case that unauthorized migrants can permissibly evade, deceive, and use defensive force against immigration agents, that smugglers can aid migrants in crossing borders, and that citizens should disobey laws that compel them to harm immigrants. Unjust Borders is a meditation on how individuals should act in the midst of pervasive injustice.
Author : M. Taylor Fravel
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400828876
As China emerges as an international economic and military power, the world waits to see how the nation will assert itself globally. Yet, as M. Taylor Fravel shows in Strong Borders, Secure Nation, concerns that China might be prone to violent conflict over territory are overstated. The first comprehensive study of China's territorial disputes, Strong Borders, Secure Nation contends that China over the past sixty years has been more likely to compromise in these conflicts with its Asian neighbors and less likely to use force than many scholars or analysts might expect. By developing theories of cooperation and escalation in territorial disputes, Fravel explains China's willingness to either compromise or use force. When faced with internal threats to regime security, especially ethnic rebellion, China has been willing to offer concessions in exchange for assistance that strengthens the state's control over its territory and people. By contrast, China has used force to halt or reverse decline in its bargaining power in disputes with its militarily most powerful neighbors or in disputes where it has controlled none of the land being contested. Drawing on a rich array of previously unexamined Chinese language sources, Strong Borders, Secure Nation offers a compelling account of China's foreign policy on one of the most volatile issues in international relations.
Author : Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007-05-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780776615516
Border security has been high on public-policy agendas in Europe and North America since the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York City and on the headquarters of the American military in Washington DC. Governments are now confronted with managing secure borders, a policy objective that in this era of increased free trade and globalization must compete with intense cross-border flows of people and goods. Border-security policies must enable security personnel to identify, or filter out, dangerous individuals and substances from among the millions of travelers and tons of goods that cross borders daily, particularly in large cross-border urban regions. This book addresses this gap between security needs and an understanding of borders and borderlands. Specifically, the chapters in this volume ask policy-makers to recognize that two fundamental elements define borders and borderlands: first, human activities (the agency and agent power of individual ties and forces spanning a border), and second, the broader social processes that frame individual action, such as market forces, government activities (law, regulations, and policies), and the regional culture and politics of a borderland. Borders emerge as the historically and geographically variable expression of human ties exercised within social structures of varying force and influence, and it is the interplay and interdependence between people's incentives to act and the surrounding structures (i.e. constructed social processes that contain and constrain individual action) that determine the effectiveness of border security policies. This book argues that the nature of borders is to be porous, which is a problem for security policy makers. It shows that when for economic, cultural, or political reasons human activities increase across a border and borderland, governments need to increase cooperation and collaboration with regard to security policies, if only to avoid implementing mismatched security policies.
Author : Yuval Stienitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015066417307
Author : Nicholas De Genova
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822372660
In recent years the borders of Europe have been perceived as being besieged by a staggering refugee and migration crisis. The contributors to The Borders of "Europe" see this crisis less as an incursion into Europe by external conflicts than as the result of migrants exercising their freedom of movement. Addressing the new technologies and technical forms European states use to curb, control, and constrain what contributors to the volume call the autonomy of migration, this book shows how the continent's amorphous borders present a premier site for the enactment and disputation of the very idea of Europe. They also outline how from Istanbul to London, Sweden to Mali, and Tunisia to Latvia, migrants are finding ways to subvert visa policies and asylum procedures while negotiating increasingly militarized and surveilled borders. Situating the migration crisis within a global frame and attending to migrant and refugee supporters as well as those who stoke nativist fears, this timely volume demonstrates how the enforcement of Europe’s borders is an important element of the worldwide regulation of human mobility. Contributors. Ruben Andersson, Nicholas De Genova, Dace Dzenovska, Evelina Gambino, Glenda Garelli, Charles Heller, Clara Lecadet, Souad Osseiran, Lorenzo Pezzani, Fiorenza Picozza, Stephan Scheel, Maurice Stierl, Laia Soto Bermant, Martina Tazzioli
Author : Louise I. Gerdes
Publisher : Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : JUVENILE NONFICTION
ISBN : 0737768614
Are borders merely geographical national boundary lines, or are they the first line of defense against terrorism? For a nation of immigrants, this question might seem odd, but in this century, it has taken on a new importance. What is the effect of open borders on security, American workers, and the economy? Should a fence be erected to control the flow of migration? Should Minutemen perform border security or not? This book explores provides a wide range of opinions on whether or not the United States should close its Mexican and Canadian borders to immigrants. The impact and efficacy of increased border patrol and enforcement are debated.
Author : Marc Silberman,Karen E. Till,Janet Ward
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857455055
How is it that walls, borders, boundaries—and their material and symbolic architectures of division and exclusion—engender their very opposite? This edited volume explores the crossings, permeations, and constructions of cultural and political borders between peoples and territories, examining how walls, borders, and boundaries signify both interdependence and contact within sites of conflict and separation. Topics addressed range from the geopolitics of Europe’s historical and contemporary city walls to conceptual reflections on the intersection of human rights and separating walls, the memory politics generated in historically disputed border areas, theatrical explorations of border crossings, and the mapping of boundaries within migrant communities.
Author : Frederick Wilkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : 1880510782
The second book in this critically acclaimed series discusses many of Texas' indomitable characters such as Rip Ford, Sam Houston, and Sul Ross.
Author : Doug Stinson
Publisher : Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : PSU:000058200841
Authors discuss their various views on border protection tools that are being used in the war on terrorism.
Author : Julian Lim
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469635507
With the railroad's arrival in the late nineteenth century, immigrants of all colors rushed to the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, transforming the region into a booming international hub of economic and human activity. Following the stream of Mexican, Chinese, and African American migration, Julian Lim presents a fresh study of the multiracial intersections of the borderlands, where diverse peoples crossed multiple boundaries in search of new economic opportunities and social relations. However, as these migrants came together in ways that blurred and confounded elite expectations of racial order, both the United States and Mexico resorted to increasingly exclusionary immigration policies in order to make the multiracial populations of the borderlands less visible within the body politic, and to remove them from the boundaries of national identity altogether. Using a variety of English- and Spanish-language primary sources from both sides of the border, Lim reveals how a borderlands region that has traditionally been defined by Mexican-Anglo relations was in fact shaped by a diverse population that came together dynamically through work and play, in the streets and in homes, through war and marriage, and in the very act of crossing the border.
