Deepening Divides : How Territorial Borders and Social Boundaries Delineate Our World / Didier Fassin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fassin, Didier, Editor.

Contributor:

Fassin, Didier, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Pluto Press 2019

London : Pluto Press, 2019.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

At a glance, 'borders' and 'boundaries' may seem synonymous. But in the real (geopolitical) world, they coexist as distinct, albeit overlapping entities: the former a state's delimitation of territory; the latter the social delineation of differences. The refugee crisis in Europe showed how racial and ethnic boundaries are often instrumentalised to justify the strengthening of state borders - regardless of the cost in human life. But there are other, less tragic, examples that illustrate this overlapping as well, and ultimately demonstrate that the oft-differentiated spheres of borders and boundaries are best understood through their relationship to one another. Deepening Divides explores this relationship from many distinct perspectives and national contexts, with case studies covering five continents and drawing on anthropology, gender studies, law, political science and sociology for a truly interdisciplinary collection.

Contents:

What money can buy : citizenship by investment on a global scale / Kristin Surak

Monitoring international labor precarity : the state management of migrant domestic workers / Rhacel Parreñas

When migrants claim blood kinship : constructing hierarchies of human worth / Ayşe Parla

Family resemblances : binational marriage, Muslim "communalism," and the patriarchal state / Mayanthi Fernando

An earlier ban : Chinese exclusion and plenary power / Mae Ngai

Manners of exclusion : from the Asiatic Barred Zone to the Muslim ban / Sherally Munshi

Brave new worlds : the racial regimes of the Americas / Michael Hanchard

The outlawed : landscapes of human rights / Tugba Basaran

Protection : sanctuary and the contested ethics of presence in the United States / Linda Bosniak

Ruination and rebuilding : the precarious place of a border town in Gaza / Ilana Feldman

Symmetry and affinity : comparing borders and border-making processes in Africa / Paul Nugent.

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781786805638

1786805634

Access Restriction:

Open access Unrestricted online access