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

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Grundy-Warr, Carl (Editor ), Rajaram, Prem Kumar (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2007.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Emigration and immigration.
Boundaries.
Border patrols.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > Geography.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
Immigration clandestine > Congres.
Frontieres > Congres.
Police de la frontiere > Congres.
Émigration et immigration > Congres.
Illegal immigration > Congresses.
Noncitizens > Congresses.
Boundaries > Congresses.
Border patrols > Congresses.
Emigration and immigration > Congresses.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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,
Notas:Chiefly papers from a conference on security and migration held in Chiang Rai, Thailand, in December 2004.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (344 pages): illustrations, map
ISBN:9780816653874

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