ABSTRACT

This chapter examines border security from the perspectives of sovereignty, communication, offshore and logistics. Looking at border security's alignment to the normative order in global logistics enabled an explication of global background conditions of current operations, which indicated the values driving border security's likely future expansion and integration, the double vision of securing circulation, and the unobservable hazards and dangers of Border Force's partiality toward commerce and revenue. The compounding implications for the globally living and the planetarily limited raise fundamental political questions about responsibility, agency and justice. As blindspots of border security's world visible through an obsessive yet highly selective focus on threats in order to achieve deterrence and control, but that negate human vulnerability in pervasive and definite ways, the chapter suggests that such questions comprise negated horizons of global justice. Border Force's promotion continues to involve work conducted by group agents working within institutions.