Globalization and borders
Subtitle: death at the global frontier
By: Leanne Weber, Monash University, Australia, Sharon Pickering,  Monash University, Australia
Contributors: Pickering, Sharon, 1972-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780230247345
Subjects: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / International Security; Border security; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization
Description: Controlling border crossing has become an urgent concern under conditions of globalization, leading Western governments to introduce increasingly coercive control measures. Far from eradicating spontaneous border crossing, this defensive geography has fuelled illicit people-smuggling markets, and forced asylum seekers and illegalized travellers into increasingly hazardous journeys. € Drawing on data from official sources, media reports and lists of deaths collated by non-governmental organizations in Europe, Australia and North America, this book draws direct parallels between the border control policies adopted across the Global North, and a mounting death toll of illegalized border crossers. It analyses the political and material conditions driving contemporary border control policies and discusses the processes that mediate popular and official understandings of border-related fatalities. In seeking to account for, rather than merely count, border-related deaths the book is intended to shift the debate about contemporary border controls towards the acceptance of a more mobility-tolerant future.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.