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

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures and tables
List of maps
List of abbreviations
List of contributors
Introduction
	Why do we care about walls?
	The politics of words
	Overview
	Notes
	Bibliography
Chapter 1: State of border walls in a globalized world
	What is a wall?
	The entropy of order7
	Notes
	Bibliography
Part I: Enforcing the Line
	Chapter 2: The escalation of US–Mexico border enforcement
		Introduction
		Theorizing border security escalation as moral panic
		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
	Chapter 3: 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 wall of shame: Mobilization, immigration and reputation
		Conclusions
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 4: Ambiguous bordering practices at the EU’s edges
		Introduction
		Identity and essentialised imaginaries
		Walling Europe
		Our values’ values
		Discriminatory othering
		Conclusions
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 5: 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
	Chapter 6: Border walls in a regional context: The case of Morocco and Algeria
		Introduction
		Fortification of land border as an aspect of regional competition
		Border fortifications and disputes as means to maintain the regional subsystem
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 7: 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
		Concluding observations
		Notes
		Bibliography
Part II: Walled borders, walled lives
	Chapter 8: Ways of seeing (the border)
		How the border sees: Three theses
		Problematics of sight
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 9: 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 health as a Latina woman in the borderlands: Mobility, money and fear
		Is abortion a right for all?
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 10: 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
	Chapter 11: Securitizing insecurity along Mexico’s borders
		Border (in)security
		The new face of old policy
		Conclusion
		Notes
		Bibliography
	Chapter 12: 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
		Roles of social change
		The plight of asylum seekers: A brief history
		Social change agent-citizen/advocate role
		Social change agent-citizen/advocate and reformer/helper
		Border Network for Human Rights (BNHR): Social change agent and a rebel
		Individual actors participating in
		Conclusion
		Bibliography
Index