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Initially, research in border studies relied mainly on generalizations from cases in the US-Mexico borderlands before subsequently burgeoning in Europe. Border Politics in a Global Era seeks to expand the study further to include the post-colonial South in response to the major challenge of interdis...
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Rowman & Littlefield,
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| Publisher Address: | Lanham, Maryland : |
| Publication Dates: | [2018] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Initially, research in border studies relied mainly on generalizations from cases in the US-Mexico borderlands before subsequently burgeoning in Europe. Border Politics in a Global Era seeks to expand the study further to include the post-colonial South in response to the major challenge of interdisciplinary border studies: to explore borderlands in many contexts, with and across a variety of states, including the so-called developing, post-colonial states. Culled from decades of firsthand observations of borders from around the world and written with a critical and gender lens, the text is |
| Carrier Form: | xxvi, 278 pages : illustrations, maps, forms ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-267) and index. |
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9781442266186 (paperback) : 144226618X (paperback) |
| Index Number: | JC323 |
| CLC: | D815.3 |
| Call Number: | D815.3/S798 |
| Contents: | Part I. Conceptual framework and historical backgrounds -- Geography, maps, and the "other" in history -- Global inequalities and local borderlands : laying the conceptual foundations -- Part II. Regional case studies -- The Americas : an interdependent US-Mexico borderlands -- From borderlessness to the scars of partition in postcolonial South Asia -- European integration (under threat) : mobility in a superstructure -- Maritime and riverine borders -- Part III. Public policy issues -- Securities : environment, safety, and survival -- Citizenship, migration, and people's movement across bor |