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Borders, Fences and Walls

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Borders, Fences and Walls book

State of Insecurity?

Borders, Fences and Walls

DOI link for Borders, Fences and Walls

Borders, Fences and Walls book

State of Insecurity?
ByElisabeth Vallet
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2014
eBook Published 8 April 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315569758
Pages 298 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315569758
SubjectsGeography, Law, Politics & International Relations, Social Sciences
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Vallet, E. (2014). Borders, Fences and Walls. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315569758

Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the question remains ’Do good fences still make good neighbours’? Since the Great Wall of China, the Antonine Wall, built in Scotland to support Hadrian's Wall, the Roman ’Limes’ or the Danevirk fence, the ’wall’ has been a constant in the protection of defined entities claiming sovereignty, East and West. But is the wall more than an historical relict for the management of borders? In recent years, the wall has been given renewed vigour in North America, particularly along the U.S.-Mexico border, and in Israel-Palestine. But the success of these new walls in the development of friendly and orderly relations between nations (or indeed, within nations) remains unclear. What role does the wall play in the development of security and insecurity? Do walls contribute to a sense of insecurity as much as they assuage fears and create a sense of security for those 'behind the line'? Exactly what kind of security is associated with border walls? This book explores the issue of how the return of the border fences and walls as a political tool may be symptomatic of a new era in border studies and international relations. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this volume examines problems that include security issues ; the recurrence and/or decline of the wall; wall discourses ; legal approaches to the wall; the ’wall industry’ and border technology, as well as their symbolism, role, objectives and efficiency.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |8 pages

Introduction

part |2 pages

Part I Insecurity and Borders in Europe and North America

chapter 1|16 pages

The Mediterranean Sea as a European Border: Trans-Mediterranean Migration, Forced Return and Violation of Fundamental Rights

chapter 2|24 pages

The Canary Islands’ “Maritime Wall”: Migration Pressure, Security Measures and Economic Crisis in the Mid-Atlantic

chapter 3|15 pages

A Community of Borders, Borders of the Community: The EU’s Integrated Border Management Strategy

chapter 4|18 pages

Border Games: From Duel to Russian Roulette at the Border

chapter 5|19 pages

Borders, Bordered Lands and Borderlands

part |2 pages

Part II Towards a Theory of Border Walls?

chapter 6|12 pages

Walls and Borders in a Globalized World

chapter 7|14 pages

Border Fences in the Globalizing World: Beyond Traditional Geopolitics and Post-Positivist Approaches

chapter 8|12 pages

Is the Wall Soluble into International Law?

ByJean-Marc Sorel

chapter 9|14 pages

Walls of Money: Securitization of Border Discourse and Militarization of Markets

part |2 pages

Part III Fenced Borders in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

chapter 10|16 pages

Walls and Access to Natural Resources

BySabine Lavorel

chapter 11|16 pages

Border Fences as an Anti-Immigration Device: A Comparative View of American and Spanish Policies

chapter 12|20 pages

Walls, Sensors and Drones: Technology and Surveillance on the US–Mexico Border

chapter 13|20 pages

Technologies, Practices and the Reproduction of Conflict: The Impact of the West Bank Barrier on Peace Building

chapter 14|16 pages

Towards a High-Tech “Limes” on the Edges of Europe? Managing the External Borders of the European Union

chapter 15|20 pages

Towards the Wall between Nogales, Arizona and Nogales, Sonora

ByIrasema Coronado

chapter 16|12 pages

Border Wall as Architecture

ByRonald Rael
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