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This book aims to theoretically and empirically fill the gap between security studies¿that remain focused on the discriminatory function of the border, and borderlands studies¿that document the social dynamics of cross border societies.
List of contents
Introduction: Securitized Borderlands
Martin Deleixhe, Magdalena Dembińska and Julien Danero Iglesias
1. Biopolitical Sovereignty and Borderlands
Martin Deleixhe
2. The "Boomerang Effect" of Kin-State Activism: Cross-border Ties and the Securitization of Kin Minorities
Alexandra Liebich
3. Values and Power Conflicts in Framing Borders and Borderlands: The 2013 Reform of EU Schengen Governance
Ramona Coman
4. Conflicting Imaginaries of the Border: The Construction of African Asylum Seekers in the Israeli Political Discourse
Sharon Weinblum
5. The European Dispositif of Border Control in Malta. Migrants’ Experiences of a Securitized Borderland
Léa Lemaire
6. Behind Closed Doors: Discourses and Strategies in the European Securitized Borderlands in Moldova, Serbia and Ukraine
Julien Danero Iglesias
7. Securitizing a European Borderland: The Bordering Effects of Memory Politics in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Sarah Sajn
About the author
Martin Deleixhe is Senior Researcher in Political Theory at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France.
Magdalena Dembińska is Associate Professor in Political Science at the Université de Montréal, QC, Canada. Her research focuses on majority-minority relations and on nation- and state-building in Central Europe and Eurasia.
Julien Danero Iglesias is an independent researcher, with interest in nationalism and identity in Eastern Europe.
Summary
This book aims to theoretically and empirically fill the gap between security studies—that remain focused on the discriminatory function of the border, and borderlands studies—that document the social dynamics of cross border societies.
