ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the role of civil society, particularly a globalizing civil society, in bringing about peace at the border. It also examines the principles and practices of border control protests. The chapter explains that civil society is absolutely critical to reducing the harm done by contemporary border control practices, harms that include both routine and flagrant violations of human rights and the generation of new forms of human insecurity. It discusses the expansion of legal personhood, the cover of the law to individuals regardless of gender, class, race or citizenship, is vital to the protection of human rights at the border. Global mobility has enabled some people to build transnational lives, maintaining social ties across two countries and a bicultural identity rooted in both, facilitated by the rise of global communications and the easing of dual citizenship rules and regulations.
