'This volume is the first to bring together two distinct phenomena usually studied in separate strands of research: how migration regimes police the territorial boundaries of states, and how differentiating between and discriminating against minority groups creates social boundaries within states. An important and timely intellectual move'

- Andreas Wimmer, author of 'Ethnic Boundary Making: Institutions, Networks, Power',

'This is a splendid collection of essays that illustrates how racial, gender and class-based discrimination is instrumental to the justification of the state's right to exclude. With case studies from five continents and genuinely interdisciplinary contributions, this volume is an indispensable theoretical and political tool for reflecting on migration and territorial rights in the 21st century'

- Lea Ypi, author of 'Global Justice and Avant-Garde Political Agency',

At a glance, 'borders' and 'boundaries' may seem synonymous. But in the real (geopolitical) world, they coexist as distinct, albeit overlapping entities: the former a state's delimitation of territory; the latter the social delineation of differences. The refugee crisis in Europe showed how racial and ethnic boundaries are often instrumentalised to justify the strengthening of state borders - regardless of the cost in human life. But there are other, less tragic, examples that illustrate this overlapping as well, and ultimately demonstrate that the oft-differentiated spheres of borders and boundaries are best understood through their relationship to one another. Deepening Divides explores this relationship from many distinct perspectives and national contexts, with case studies covering five continents and drawing on anthropology, gender studies, law, political science and sociology for a truly interdisciplinary collection.
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A non-Eurocentric, interdisciplinary collection arguing that boundaries and borders are best understood as overlapping categories.
1. Introduction: Connecting Borders and Boundaries - Didier Fassin PART I: POLITICAL AND MORAL ECONOMIES 2. What Money Can Buy: Citizenship by Investment on a Global Scale - Kristin Surak 3. Monitoring International Labor Precarity: The State Management of Migrant Domestic Workers - Rhacel Parreñas 4. When Migrants Claim Blood Kinship: Constructing Hierarchies of Human Worth - Ays¸e Parla 5. Family Resemblances: Binational Marriage, Muslim “Communalism,” and the Patriarchal State - Mayanthi Fernando PART II: LEGAL DISBARRING 6. An Earlier Ban: Chinese Exclusion and Plenary Power - Mae Ngai 7. Manners of Exclusion: From the Asiatic Barred Zone to the Muslim Ban - Sherally Munshi 8. Brave New Worlds: The Racial Regimes of the Americas - Michael Hanchard 9. The Outlawed: Landscapes of Human Rights - Tugba Basaran PART III: CREATING SPACES 10. Protection: Sanctuary and the Contested Ethics of Presence in the United States - Linda Bosniak 11. Ruination and Rebuilding: The Precarious Place of a Border Town in Gaza - Ilana Feldman 12. Symmetry and Affinity: Comparing Borders and Border-Making Processes in Africa - Paul Nugent Notes on Contributors Index
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'This volume is the first to bring together two distinct phenomena usually studied in separate strands of research: how migration regimes police the territorial boundaries of states, and how differentiating between and discriminating against minority groups creates social boundaries within states. An important and timely intellectual move'
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780745340432
Publisert
2019
Utgiver
Vendor
Pluto Press
Vekt
344 gr
Høyde
215 mm
Bredde
135 mm
Aldersnivå
Academic, P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
272

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Biographical note

Didier Fassin is the James D. Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He is the author of numerous books including The Will to Punish (2018), Life: A Critical Users Manual (2018), Prison Worlds: An Ethnography of the Carceral Condition (2016) and Enforcing Order: An Ethnography of Urban Policing.