Borders and Border Walls: In-security, Symbolism, Vulnerabilities

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Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of figures and tables List of maps List of abbreviations List of contributors Introduction Why do we care about walls? The politics of words Overview Notes Bibliography Chapter 1: State of border walls in a globalized world What is a wall? The entropy of order7 Notes Bibliography Part I: Enforcing the Line Chapter 2: The escalation of US–Mexico border enforcement Introduction Theorizing border security escalation as moral panic Immigration, the war on drugs and border enforcement in the 1980s and 1990s The war on terror and border enforcement in the 2000s The Trump era and the new moral panic over the border Concluding observations Notes Bibliography Chapter 3: Argentina’s enigmatic wall on the Paraguayan border Globalization and integration in Argentina Development and security in Argentina’s north-eastern borderlands The Posadas Wall: Development, integration and bureaucracy The wall of shame: Mobilization, immigration and reputation Conclusions Notes Bibliography Chapter 4: Ambiguous bordering practices at the EU’s edges Introduction Identity and essentialised imaginaries Walling Europe Our values’ values Discriminatory othering Conclusions Notes Bibliography Chapter 5: Enforcing Israel/Palestine’s border spaces Why boundaries matter Israel’s boundaries Mapping boundaries Delineating the Jordanian boundary Delineating the Green Line between the West Bank and Israel Conclusion Notes Bibliography Chapter 6: Border walls in a regional context: The case of Morocco and Algeria Introduction Fortification of land border as an aspect of regional competition Border fortifications and disputes as means to maintain the regional subsystem Conclusion Bibliography Chapter 7: Beyond the border fence: The emergence of Hungary’s contemporary bordering regime Introduction Bordering as a politics of life: Preliminary arguments The emergence of a bordering regime: The case of Hungary Concluding observations Notes Bibliography Part II: Walled borders, walled lives Chapter 8: Ways of seeing (the border) How the border sees: Three theses Problematics of sight Conclusion Notes Bibliography Chapter 9: The border wall and the paper wall: Accessing reproductive care in the US–Mexico borderlands Introduction An intersectional geopolitical approach to the study of reproductive rights in the borderlands The erosion of Roe v. Wade: Geographical and legal disparities in accessing reproductive health in the US Accessing reproductive health as a Latina woman in the borderlands: Mobility, money and fear Is abortion a right for all? Notes Bibliography Chapter 10: Spaces of exclusion: negotiating access to land beyond the border fence in Indian Punjab The material construction of the border and its impact on mobility Border guarding practices: Everyday insecurities The securitization of development: Border Area Development Programme Conclusion Notes Bibliography Chapter 11: Securitizing insecurity along Mexico’s borders Border (in)security The new face of old policy Conclusion Notes Bibliography Chapter 12: Promoting social change through Acompañamiento Internacional at the US–Mexico border Introduction Asylum seekers and the process of bordering and rebordering in Ciudad Juárez–El Paso Roles of social change The plight of asylum seekers: A brief history Social change agent-citizen/advocate role Social change agent-citizen/advocate and reformer/helper Border Network for Human Rights (BNHR): Social change agent and a rebel Individual actors participating in Conclusion Bibliography Index