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Summary:

Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the question remains ’Do good fences still make good neighbours’? Since the Great Wall of China, the Antonine Wall, built in Scotland to support Hadrian's Wall, the Roman ’Limes’ or the Danevirk fence, the ’wall’ has been a constant in the protection of defined entities claiming sovereignty, East and West. But is the wall more than an historical relict for the management of borders? In recent years, the wall has been given renewed vigour in North America, particularly along the U.S.-Mexico border, and in Israel-Palestine. But the success of these new walls in the development of friendly and orderly relations between nations (or indeed, within nations) remains unclear. What role does the wall play in the development of security and insecurity? Do walls contribute to a sense of insecurity as much as they assuage fears and create a sense of security for those 'behind the line'? Exactly what kind of security is associated with border walls? This book explores the issue of how the return of the border fences and walls as a political tool may be symptomatic of a new era in border studies and international relations. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this volume examines problems that include security issues ; the recurrence and/or decline of the wall; wall discourses ; legal approaches to the wall; the ’wall industry’ and border technology, as well as their symbolism, role, objectives and efficiency.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• 1 The Mediterranean Sea as a European Border: Trans-Mediterranean Migration, Forced Return and Violation of Fundamental Rights
• 2 The Canary Islands’ “Maritime Wall”: Migration Pressure, Security Measures and Economic Crisis in the Mid-Atlantic
• 3 A Community of Borders, Borders of the Community: The EU’s Integrated Border Management Strategy
• 4 Border Games: From Duel to Russian Roulette at the Border
• 5 Borders, Bordered Lands and Borderlands: Geographical States of Insecurity between Canada and the United States and the Impacts of Security Primacy
• 6 Walls and Borders in a Globalized World: The Paradoxical Revenge of Territorialization
• 7 Border Fences in the Globalizing World: Beyond Traditional Geopolitics and Post-Positivist Approaches
• 8 Is the Wall Soluble into International Law?
• 9 Walls of Money: Securitization of Border Discourse and Militarization of Markets
• 10 Walls and Access to Natural Resources
• 11 Border Fences as an Anti-Immigration Device: A Comparative View of American and Spanish Policies
• 12 Walls, Sensors and Drones: Technology and Surveillance on the US–Mexico Border
• 13 Technologies, Practices and the Reproduction of Conflict: The Impact of the West Bank Barrier on Peace Building
• 14 Towards a High-Tech 'Limes' on the Edges of Europe? Managing the External Borders of the European Union
• 15 Towards the Wall between Nogales, Arizona and Nogales, Sonora
• 16 Border Wall as Architecture.

Contributors:

Vallet, Élisabeth , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

In English.

Related Series:

Border regions series

Subjects:

Border security — Case studies

National security — Case studies

Emigration and immigration — Government policy — Case studies

Border security

National security

Emigration and immigration — Government policy

Emigration and immigration

Genres:

Case studies

General Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed March 23, 2018).
First published 2014.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 286 pages) : illustrations.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

JV6225 .B673 2016eb

ISBNs:

9781315569758
9781472429667 (print) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

950005848

Other Control Numbers:

3911520 (source: VaAlASP)
[Unknown Type]: ASP3911520/bord