Rethinking Border Control for a Globalizing World A Preferred Future [Hardcover]

This book provides a new point of departure for thinking critically and creatively about international borders and the perceived need to defend them, adopting an innovative preferred future methodology.

The authors critically examine a range of border domains including law, citizenship, governance, morality, security, economy, culture and civil society, which provide the means and justification for contemporary border controls, and identify early signs that the dynamics of sovereignty and borders are being fundamentally transformed under conditions of neoliberal globalization. The goal is to locate potential pathways towards the preferred future of relaxed borders, and provide a foundation for a progressive politics dedicated to moving beyond mere critique of the harm and inequity of border controls and capable of envisaging a differently bordered world.

This book will be of considerable interest to students of border studies, migration, criminology, peacemaking, critical security studies and IR in general.

Editor's Preface, Leanne Weber1. Peace at the Border: A Thought Experiment, Leanne Weber 2. The law of the border and the borders of law: rethinking border control from the perspective of the individual, Valsamis Mitsilegas3. The Limits of Inclusion: Globalization, Neoliberal Capitalism and State Policies of Border Control, Leonidas K. Cheliotis4. Security and peace in the USMexico borderlands, Raymond Michalowski5. Superseding citizenship, Tiziana Torresi6. State borders, human mobility and social equality: from blueprints to pathways, Galina Cornelisse7. Open borders and the survival of national cultures, George Vasilev8. Moral communities across the border: the particularism of law meets the universalism of ethics, Barbara Hudson9. Border protests: the role of civil sociel3K