| Description |
xi, 248 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Transnational crime, crime control and security series |
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Transnational crime, crime control and security series
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| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: pt. I Border Autopsy: Examining Contemporary Borders -- 1.Charting the Global Frontier -- 2.Counting and Discounting Border Deaths -- 3.Accounting for Deaths at the Border -- pt. II Border Inquest: Misadventure or Death by Policy? -- 4.Structural Violence -- 5.Suspicious Deaths -- 6.Suicide and Self-harm -- pt. III From Finding Truth to Preventing Border Harm -- 7.The Ambiguous Architecture of Risk |
| 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."--PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION |
| Analysis |
Australian |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Border security.
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| Author |
Pickering, Sharon, 1972-
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| ISBN |
0230247342 (hbk.) |
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9780230247345 (hbk.) |
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