Publication

1999 - Manchester University Press

Language

English

Word Count

56,000 words, Guess

Page Count

224 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139781526145338
  • ISBN-101526145332
  • Better World Books9781526145338
  • Open LibraryOL29445107M

Description

The border is one of the most urgent issues of our times. We tend to think of a border as a static line, but recent bordering techniques have broken away from the map, as governments have developed legal tools to limit the rights of migrants before and after they enter a country's territory. The consequent detachment of state power from any fixed geographical marker has created a new paradigm: the shifting border, an adjustable legal construct untethered in space. This transformation upsets our assumptions about waning sovereignty, while also revealing the limits of the populist push toward border-fortification. At the same time, it presents a tremendous opportunity to rethink states' responsibilities to migrants. This book proposes a new, functional approach to human mobility and access to membership in a world where borders, like people, have the capacity to move. --

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Shifting Border - Legal Cartographies of Migration and Mobility: Ayelet Shachar in DialogueManchester University Press1999-01-01

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