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Borderscapes: hidden geographies and politics at territory's edge

Prem Kumar Rajaram and Carl Grundy-Warr, editors
Resource Type:
Book (Print/Paper)
Publication:
Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2007]
Copyright:
©2007
Related Series:
Borderlines (Minneapolis, Minn.); v. 29
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Prem Kumar Rajaram and Carl Grundy-Warr
  • Knowledge, power, surveillance
  • Detention of foreigners, states of exception, and the social practices of control of the banopticon / Didier Bigo
  • Struggling with (il)legality: the indeterminate functioning of Malaysia's borders for asylum seekers, refugees, and stateless persons / Alice M. Nah
  • The foreigner in the security continuum: judicial resistance in the United Kingdom / Elspeth Guild
  • Ambivalent categories: hill tribes and illegal migrants in Thailand / Mika Toyota
  • Borderpanic: representing migrants and borders
  • Danger happens at the border / Emma Haddad
  • Violence, subversion, and creativity in the Thai-Malaysian borderland / Alexander Horstmann
  • Rethinking borderscapes: mapping hidden geographies
  • The poetry of boundaries / James D. Sidaway
  • The sites of the Sino-Burmese and Thai-Burmese boundaries: transpositions between the conceptual and life worlds / Karin Dean
  • A Pacific zone? (In)security, sovereignty, and stories of the Pacific borderscape / Suvendrini Perera
  • Rethinking borderscapes: the new political
  • "Temporary shelter areas" and the paradox of perceptibility: imperceptible naked-Karens in the Thai-Burmese border zones / Decha Tangseefa
  • Locating political space through time: asylum and excision in Australia / Prem Kumar Rajaram
  • Border's capture: insurrectional politics, border-crossing humans, and the new political / Nevzat Soguk
  • Contributors
  • Index.
Contributors:
Rajaram, Prem Kumar
Grundy-Warr, Carl
Languages:
English
Language Notes:
Item content: English
Related Series:
Borderlines (Minneapolis, Minn.); v. 29
Subjects:
Undocumented immigrants — Congresses
Emigration and immigration — Congresses
Border patrols — Congresses
Boundaries — Congresses
Emigration and immigration
Border patrols
Boundaries
Undocumented immigrants
Genres:
Conference papers and proceedings
General Notes:
Chiefly papers from a conference on security and migration held in Chiang Rai, Thailand, in December 2004.
Includes bibliographica references and index.
Physical Description:
xl, 330 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
Call Numbers:
JV6033 .B59 2007
ISBNs:
9780816649259 (hc, alk. paper)
0816649251 (hc, alk. paper)
9780816649266 (pb, alk. paper)
081664926X (pb, alk. paper)
Library of Congress Control Numbers:
2007018940
OCLC Numbers:
124164766