Summary:

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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Dewey Class: 304 -- Factors affecting social behavior

Book Details:

Physical Description: 240 pages
Edition Info: Hardcover; 2012-01-03

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