Borderscapes - Hidden Geographies and Politics At Territory''s Edge

Klappentext Connecting critical issues of state sovereignty with empirical concerns, Borderscapes interrogates the limits of political space. The essays in this volume analyze everyday procedures, such as the classifying of migrants and refugees, security in European and American detention centers, and the DNA sampling of migrants in Thailand, showing the border as a moral construct rich with panic, danger, and patriotism.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.Contributors: Didier Bigo, Institut d'Études Politiques, Paris; Karin Dean; Elspeth Guild, U of Nijmegen; Emma Haddad; Alexander Horstmann, U of Münster; Alice M. Nah, National U of Singapore; Suvendrini Perera, Curtin U of Technology, Australia; James D. Sidaway, U of Plymouth, UK; Nevzat Soguk, U of Hawai'i; Decha Tangseefa, Thammasat U, Bangkok; Mika Toyota, National U of Singapore.Prem Kumar Rajaram is assistant professor of sociology and social anthropology at the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.Carl Grundy-Warr is senior lecturer of geography at the National University of Singapore.

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• Authors: Prem Kumar Grundy-Warr Rajaram, Prem Kumar/ Grundy-Warr Rajaram, RAJARAM PREM KUMAR GRUNDY WARR C
• Assisted by: Carl Grundy-Warr (Editor), Prem Kumar Rajaram (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Minnesota Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.12.2007
• EAN: 9780816649266
• ISBN: 978-0-8166-4926-6
• No. of pages: 344
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Borderlines (Paperback); Barrows Lectures
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas