Rethinking border control for a globalizing world: a preferred future
This book provides a new point of departure for thinking critically and creatively about international borders and the perceived need to defend them, adopting an innovative 'preferred future' methodology. The authors critically examine a range of 'border domains' including law, citizenship, governance, morality, security, economy, culture and civil society, which provide the means and justification for contemporary border controls, and identify early signs that the dynamics of sovereignty and b…
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- Full title :Rethinking border control for a globalizing world : a preferred future / edited by Leanne Weber.
Summary
This book provides a new point of departure for thinking critically and creatively about international borders and the perceived need to defend them, adopting an innovative 'preferred future' methodology. The authors critically examine a range of 'border domains' including law, citizenship, governance, morality, security, economy, culture and civil society, which provide the means and justification for contemporary border controls, and identify early signs that the dynamics of sovereignty and borders are being fundamentally transformed under conditions of neoliberal globalization. The goal is t.
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- Publication Date:2015.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2015.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781134615810, 1134615817, 9781315886060, 1315886065, 9781134615889, 1134615884, 9781134615957, 1134615957
- oclc:ocn903488943
- LC Classification:JV6225
- Dewey Decimal:363.28/5
Table of Contents
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; List of acronyms and abbreviations; Editor's preface; 1 Peace at the border: a thought experiment; 2 The law of the border and the borders of law: rethinking border control from the perspective of the individual; 3 The limits of inclusion: globalization, neoliberal capitalism and state policies of border control; 4 Security and peace in the US-Mexico borderlands; 5 Superseding citizenship; 6 State borders, human mobility and social equality: from blueprints to pathways.
7 Open borders and the survival of national cultures8 Moral communities across the border: the particularism of law meets the universalism of ethics; 9 Border protests: the role of civil society in transforming border control; 10 Conclusion: prospects for peace at the border; Commentaries; Rethinking borders as membranes; From national borders to embedded borderings; Transforming borders from below; Afterword; Index.
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