Racism and borders: representation, repression, resistance
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York Algora Pub. ©2010
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Despite claims about globalization, we see increasing surveillance, tightened restrictions and growing punitive regimes at international borders. This critical collection examines processes of racialization in relation to border regulations and restrictions. It analyses border controls, racism, and representations of race, within multinational contexts as aspects of neo-liberal governance. It also looks at means by which people resist or challenge racialization. This collection uses the lenses of sociology, criminology, art, literary criticism and political science to critically examine varied
Introduction: Contemporary Border Struggles; Chapter 1. Racial profiling at the borders: Implications for National and Human Security; Chapter 2. Racial Profiling; Chapter 3. Race and Imperialism: Migration and Border Control in the Canadian State; Chapter 4. Consuming Fears: Neo-liberal In/Securities, Cannibalization, and Psychopolitics; Chapter 5. "Border Panic" and the Bounds of Racial Identity; Chapter 6. White-Out; Chapter 7. "Self" and "the Other" A Journey of Mutual Recognition; Chapter 8. No One Is Illegal: Resistance and Borders; Contributors; Index
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 188 pages)
ISBN:087586807X
0875868088
0875868096
9780875868073
9780875868080
9780875868097

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