Author

Contributions

  • Pickering, Sharon, 1972- - Contributor

Publication

2012 - Palgrave Macmillan, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

62,000 words, Guess

Page Count

248 pages

Identifiers

and 4 more

Classifications

  • DDC363.28/5
  • LCCJV6225 .W43 2012
  • LCCH96-H97.7HV6001-7220
and 1 more
  • LCCJV6225 .W43 2011

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.

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Other Editions

  • Globalization and borders: death at the global frontierPalgrave Macmillan2012-01-01

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