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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.
- Emigration and immigration--Congresses.
- Emigration and immigration.
- Border patrols--Congresses.
- Border patrols.
- Boundaries--Congresses.
- Boundaries.
- Illegal immigration.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (371 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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."-from publisher website
- 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:
- Includes bibliographica references and index.
- Chiefly papers from a conference on security and migration held in Chiang Rai, Thailand, in December 2004."
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0816653879
- OCLC:
- 476156633
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