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Borderscapes: Hidden Geographies and Politics at Territory's Edge Volume 29
Contributor(s): Rajaram, Prem Kumar (Editor), Grundy-Warr, Carl (Editor)
ISBN: 081664926X     ISBN-13: 9780816649266
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
OUR PRICE:   $27.72  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: December 2007
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Annotation: 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'etudes Politiques, Paris; Karin Dean; Elspeth Guild, U of Nijmegen; Emma Haddad; Alexander Horstmann, U of Munster; 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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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Emigration & Immigration
- Science | Earth Sciences - Geography
- Political Science | History & Theory - General
Dewey: 325.1
LCCN: 2007018940
Series: Borderlines (Paperback)
Physical Information: 0.76" H x 6.37" W x 8.94" (1.06 lbs) 344 pages
 
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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.