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Borderscapes : hidden geographies and politics at territory's edge / Prem Kumar Rajaram and Carl Grundy-Warr, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Borderlines (Minneapolis, Minn.) ; v. 29.
- Borderlines ; v. 29
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Noncitizens--Congresses.
- Noncitizens.
- Illegal immigration--Congresses.
- Illegal immigration.
- Emigration and immigration--Congresses.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Border patrols--Congresses.
- Border patrols.
- Boundaries--Congresses.
- Boundaries.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- xl, 330 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2007]
- Contents:
- Introduction / Prem Kumar Rajaram and Carl Grundy-Warr
- Knowledge, power, surveillance
- Detention of foreigners, states of exception, and the social practices of control of the banopticon / Didier Bigo
- Struggling with (il)legality: the indeterminate functioning of Malaysia's borders for asylum seekers, refugees, and stateless persons / Alice M. Nah
- The foreigner in the security continuum: judicial resistance in the United Kingdom / Elspeth Guild
- Ambivalent categories: hill tribes and illegal migrants in Thailand / Mika Toyota
- Borderpanic: representing migrants and borders
- Danger happens at the border / Emma Haddad
- Violence, subversion, and creativity in the Thai-Malaysian borderland / Alexander Horstmann
- Rethinking borderscapes: mapping hidden geographies
- The poetry of boundaries / James D. Sidaway
- The sites of the Sino-Burmese and Thai-Burmese boundaries: transpositions between the conceptual and life worlds / Karin Dean
- A Pacific zone? (In)security, sovereignty, and stories of the Pacific borderscape / Suvendrini Perera
- Rethinking borderscapes: the new political
- "Temporary shelter areas" and the paradox of perceptibility: imperceptible naked-Karens in the Thai-Burmese border zones / Decha Tangseefa
- Locating political space through time: asylum and excision in Australia / Prem Kumar Rajaram
- Border's capture: insurrectional politics, border-crossing humans, and the new political / Nevzat Soguk
- Contributors
- Index.
- Notes:
- Chiefly papers from a conference on security and migration held in Chiang Rai, Thailand, in December 2004.
- Includes bibliographica references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780816649259
- 0816649251
- 9780816649266
- 081664926X
- OCLC:
- 124164766
- Online:
- Publisher description
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