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Borders and Border Walls: In-security, Symbolism, Vulnerabilities

Why do we care about walls?The politics of words Overview Notes Bibliography State of border walls in a globalized world What is a wall?The growing pace of border fortification The (un)efflcient border wall The entropy of order Notes Bibliography I: Enforcing the Line The escalation of US–Mexico border enforcement Introduction Theorizing border security escalation as moral panic Early US border enforcement control efforts Immigration, the war on drugs and border enforcement in the 1980s and 1990s The war on terror and border enforcement in the 2000s The Trump era and the new moral panic over the border Concluding observations Notes Bibliography Argentina’s enigmatic wall on the Paraguayan border Globalization and integration in Argentina Development and security in Argentina’s north-eastern borderlands The Posadas Wall: Development, integration and bureaucracy The Posadas border wall’s discontents The wall of shame: Mobilization, immigration and reputation Mobilizing shame across borders De-walling immigration policy Conclusions Notes Bibliography Ambiguous bordering practices at the EU’s edges Introduction Politics of difference Identity and essentialised imaginaries Walling Europe Our values’ values Discriminatory othering Conclusions Notes Bibliography Enforcing Israel/Palestine’s border spaces Why boundaries matter Israel’s boundaries Mapping boundaries Delineating the Jordanian boundary Delineating the Green Line between the West Bank and Israel Conclusion Notes Bibliography Border walls in a regional context: The case of Morocco and Algeria Introduction Border fortification from both sides Different objectives and different priorities Fortification of land border as an aspect of regional competition Border fortifications and disputes as means to maintain the regional subsystem Conclusion Bibliography Beyond the border fence: The emergence of Hungary’s contemporary bordering regime Introduction Bordering as a politics of life: Preliminary arguments The emergence of a bordering regime: The case of Hungary Hungarian ethnopolitics in a cross-border context The bordering regime as socio-cultural norming and division Bordering and the securitization of migration Concluding observations Notes Bibliography II: Walled borders, walled lives Ways of seeing (the border)How the border sees: Three theses The “Westphalia” thesis The “Orwell” thesis The “Pixelation” thesis Problematics of sight Conclusion Notes Bibliography The border wall and the paper wall: Accessing reproductive care in the US–Mexico borderlands Introduction An intersectional geopolitical approach to the study of reproductive rights in the borderlands The erosion of Roe v. Wade: Geographical and legal disparities in accessing reproductive health in the US Accessing reproductive care on the US-Mexico border: The cases of Texas and Arizona Accessing reproductive health as a Latina woman in the borderlands: Mobility, money and fear Clinic closures and concrete impacts Money matters: Abortion care and socio-economic class Self-abortion and medical abortion: Taking care outside of the clinic Cultural experiences and migration realities: Abortion laws and Latinos Is abortion a right for all?Notes Bibliography Spaces of exclusion: negotiating access to land beyond the border fence in Indian Punjab The material construction of the border and its impact on mobility Border guarding practices: Everyday insecurities The securitization of development: Border Area Development Programme Conclusion Notes Bibliography Securitizing insecurity along Mexico’s borders Border (in)security Border fortification nation The new face of old policy Conclusion Notes Bibliography Promoting social change through Acompañamiento Internacional at the US–Mexico border Introduction Asylum seekers and the process of bordering and rebordering in Ciudad Juárez–El Paso Acompanamiento International: Roles of social change The plight of asylum seekers: A brief history Social change agent-citizen/advocate role Casas del Migrante Network in Mexico, El Salvador and Guatemala Social change agent-citizen/advocate and reformer/helper Annunciation House (AH)Border Network for Human Rights (BNHR): Social change agent and a rebel Individual actors participating in International Mary from New Mexico Irma from El Paso Conclusion Bibliography

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From baby bumps to border walls: Celebrity gossip magazines and the post-truth politic
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State of border walls in a globalized world
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The Posadas border wall’s discontents
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Border walls in a regional context: The case of Morocco and Algeria
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Walled borders, walled lives
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The border wall and the paper wall: Accessing reproductive care in the US–Mexico borderlands
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Border Wall
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African physical and symbolic borders and the migration question
Precarity of borders and migration regimes in the Southern African region Inocent Moyo and Jussi P Laine The Southern African region is part of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), but specifically refers to those countries which are located on the southernmost part of the...
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