Borderscapes : Hidden Geographies and Politics at Territory's Edge.

By: Rajaram, Prem KumarContributor(s): Grundy-Warr, CarlMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2007Copyright date: ©2007Description: 1 online resource (371 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780816653874Subject(s): Border patrols -- Congresses | Boundaries -- Congresses | Emigration and immigration -- Congresses | Illegal aliens -- CongressesGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Borderscapes : Hidden Geographies and Politics at Territory's EdgeDDC classification: 325/.1 LOC classification: JV6033 -- .B59 2007ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I: Knowledge, Power, Surveillance -- 1. Detention of Foreigners, States of Exception, and the Social Practices of Control of the Banopticon -- 2. Struggling with (Il)Legality: The Indeterminate Functioning of Malaysia's Borders for Asylum Seekers, Refugees, and Stateless Persons -- 3. The Foreigner in the Security Continuum: Judicial Resistance in the United Kingdom -- 4. Ambivalent Categories: Hill Tribes and Illegal Migrants in Thailand -- PART II: Borderpanic: Representing Migrants and Borders -- 5. Danger Happens at the Border -- 6. Violence, Subversion, and Creativity in the Thai-Malaysian Borderland -- PART III: Rethinking Borderscapes: Mapping Hidden Geographies -- 7. The Poetry of Boundaries -- 8. The Sites of the Sino-Burmese and Thai-Burmese Boundaries: Transpositions between the Conceptual and Life Worlds -- 9. A Pacific Zone? (In)Security, Sovereignty, and Stories of the Pacific Borderscape -- PART IV: Rethinking Borderscapes: The New Political -- 10. "Temporary Shelter Areas" and the Paradox of Perceptibility: Imperceptible Naked-Karens in the Thai-Burmese Border Zones -- 11. Locating Political Space through Time: Asylum and Excision in Australia -- 12. Border's Capture: Insurrectional Politics, Border-Crossing Humans, and the New Political -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Summary: Connecting critical issues of state sovereignty with empirical concerns, Borderscapes interrogates the limits of political space. The essays in this volume analyze everyday procedures, such as the classifying of migrants and refugees, security in European and American detention centers, and the DNA sampling of migrants in Thailand, showing the border as a moral construct rich with panic, danger, and patriotism. Conceptualizing such places as immigration detention camps and refugee camps as areas of political contestation, this work forcefully argues that borders and migration are, ultimately, inextricable from questions of justice and its limits. Contributors: Didier Bigo, Karin Dean, Elspeth Guild, Emma Haddad, Alexander Horstmann, Alice M. Nah, Suvendrini Perera, James D. Sidaway, Nevzat Soguk, Decha Tangseefa, Mika Toyota.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I: Knowledge, Power, Surveillance -- 1. Detention of Foreigners, States of Exception, and the Social Practices of Control of the Banopticon -- 2. Struggling with (Il)Legality: The Indeterminate Functioning of Malaysia's Borders for Asylum Seekers, Refugees, and Stateless Persons -- 3. The Foreigner in the Security Continuum: Judicial Resistance in the United Kingdom -- 4. Ambivalent Categories: Hill Tribes and Illegal Migrants in Thailand -- PART II: Borderpanic: Representing Migrants and Borders -- 5. Danger Happens at the Border -- 6. Violence, Subversion, and Creativity in the Thai-Malaysian Borderland -- PART III: Rethinking Borderscapes: Mapping Hidden Geographies -- 7. The Poetry of Boundaries -- 8. The Sites of the Sino-Burmese and Thai-Burmese Boundaries: Transpositions between the Conceptual and Life Worlds -- 9. A Pacific Zone? (In)Security, Sovereignty, and Stories of the Pacific Borderscape -- PART IV: Rethinking Borderscapes: The New Political -- 10. "Temporary Shelter Areas" and the Paradox of Perceptibility: Imperceptible Naked-Karens in the Thai-Burmese Border Zones -- 11. Locating Political Space through Time: Asylum and Excision in Australia -- 12. Border's Capture: Insurrectional Politics, Border-Crossing Humans, and the New Political -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

Connecting critical issues of state sovereignty with empirical concerns, Borderscapes interrogates the limits of political space. The essays in this volume analyze everyday procedures, such as the classifying of migrants and refugees, security in European and American detention centers, and the DNA sampling of migrants in Thailand, showing the border as a moral construct rich with panic, danger, and patriotism. Conceptualizing such places as immigration detention camps and refugee camps as areas of political contestation, this work forcefully argues that borders and migration are, ultimately, inextricable from questions of justice and its limits. Contributors: Didier Bigo, Karin Dean, Elspeth Guild, Emma Haddad, Alexander Horstmann, Alice M. Nah, Suvendrini Perera, James D. Sidaway, Nevzat Soguk, Decha Tangseefa, Mika Toyota.

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