ABSTRACT
This chapter delves into the more recent geographies of border work, the reality of bordering although it was never as tidy as it was represented or remembered has nevertheless been both geographically displaced and partially supplanted by a new, variegated reality. It offers some insights on these questions, but people acknowledge that border work is still done by agents of the state at the border. Fences, walls and even the lonely stone marker on an otherwise featureless landscape continue to serve their function in demarcating sovereign states territorial limits and impeding free movements, but globalization and other structural changes altered the dynamic in notable ways. The chapter demonstrates that border security is a spatial-territorial strategy of coping with the upheavals of an increasingly globalized world and but one of a series of tightly regulated, seclusionary spaces of security humans have created in response.
