Rethinking authority in China's border regime : regulating the irregular / Franziska Plümmer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Plümmer, Franziska, author.

Series:

New mobilities in Asia.

New Mobilities in Asia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

China--Emigration and immigration--Government policy.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (317 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2022.

Summary:

In the twenty-first century, governments around the globe are faced with the question on how to tackle new migratory mobilities. Governments increasingly become aware of irregular immigration and are forced to re-negotiate the dilemma of open but secure borders. <i>Rethinking Authority in China's Border Regime: Regulating the Irregular</i> investigates the Chinese government's response to this phenomenon. Hence, this book presents a comprehensive analysis of the Chinese border regime. It explores the regulatory framework of border mobility in China by analysing laws, institutions, and discourses as part of an ethnographic border regime analysis. It argues that the Chinese state deliberately creates 'zones of exception' along its border. In these zones, local governments function as 'scalar managers' that establish cross-border relations to facilitate cross-border mobility and create local migration systems that build on their own notion of legality by issuing locally valid border documents. The book presents an empirically rich story of how border politics are implemented and theoretically contributes to debates on territoriality and sovereignty as well as to the question of how authority is exerted through border management. Empirically, the analysis builds on two case studies at the Sino-Myanmar and Sino-North Korean borders to illustrate how local practices are embedded in multiscalar mobility regulation including regional organizations such as the Greater Mekong Subregion and the Greater Tumen Initiative.

Contents:

Cover

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction

Multiple Borders - Tracking the Border down

Contextualizing Chinese Border Politics in the Making

On Border Regimes, Sovereignty, and Immigration

Methodological Reflections

Map of the Book

Bibliography

2. Border Authority and Zoning Technologies

Border as a Method of Investigation

Territorial Governmentality and Zoning Technologies

Self-regulation and Self-responsibility in China's Neo-socialist Governmentality

3. Graduated Citizenship and Social Control in China's Immigration System

The Power to Choose

Characteristics of the Chinese Immigration System

Labelling Immigrants: Differentiating Legal Authority and Control over Immigrants

Rationalities of the Chinese Immigration System

4. Making Border Politics: State Actors &amp

Security in the Chinese Border Regime

Locating Border Security Control: Externalization/Internalization

State Configurations in Border Politics

Defending the Border: Security Enforcement

Internal Border Security: Developing Border Areas from Within

Policing at Distance and Local Exceptions

5. Re-Scaling Territorial Authority within Regional Organizations

From Left behind to Bridging the Gap: Re-scaling the Chinese State

Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS)

Greater Tumen Initiative (GTI)

Zoning through Development

6. Local Bordering Practices and Zoning Technologies

Southwest: Dehong and Xishuangbanna Prefecture/Yunnan Province

Northeast: Yanbian Prefecture/Jilin Province

Legality as a Selective, Conditional, and Locally Bound Privilege

7. Conclusion - Authority in the Chinese Border Regime

Special Border Zones: Normalizing Local Exceptions.

The Role of Local Governments in China's Border Management

Border as a Method of Social Control: Graduated Citizenship in China's Immigration System

Border as a Method of Spatial Development: Territoriality and Centre-Periphery Relations

References

Appendix A: Institutional Architecture of Yunnan Province in the GMS

Appendix B: Institutional Architecture of Jilin Province in the GTI

Glossary

Index

List of Maps, Tables, and Figures

Figure 1 Border as a method

Figure 2 Social hierarchy

Figure 3 Pictures from a 2016 calendar issued by the Yunnan Provincial Government

Figure 4 Model of Chinese border defence lines

Figure 5 Organization of Chinese border security actors

Table 1 Relevant organizations

Table 2 Overview of the analytical framework - Border as a method

Table 3 Types of zones

Table 4 Chinese visa categories

Table 5 Different policy fields within immigration system

Table 6 Scope of action of Chinese border security actors

Table 7 Participants in the LCC

Table 8 Local policy implementation measures*

Map 1 GMS transport corridors

Map 2 GTI transport corridors

Map 3 Map of Yunnan Province

Map 4 Map of Jilin Province.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Sep 2022).

Other Format:

Print version: Plümmer, Franziska Rethinking Authority in China's Border Regime

ISBN:

9789048553815

9048553814

OCLC:

1290479389