Borders are not just lines in the sand, but increasingly globalised spaces of practice. This is the case in West Africa, where a growing range of local and international officials are brought together by ambitious security projects around common anxieties. These projects include efforts to stop irre...

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Main Author:	Frowd, Philippe M. ca. 20./21. Jh (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2018
Subjects:	Border security / Africa, West Borderlands / Africa, West Sicherheitspolitik Grenzschutz Africa, West / Politics and government / 21st century Africa, West / Civilization Westafrika
Online Access:	BSB01 UBG01 Volltext
Summary:	Borders are not just lines in the sand, but increasingly globalised spaces of practice. This is the case in West Africa, where a growing range of local and international officials are brought together by ambitious security projects around common anxieties. These projects include efforts to stop irregular migration by sea through international police cooperation, reinforcing infrastructures at border posts, and the application of new digital identification tools to identify and track increasingly mobile citizens. These interventions are driven by global and local security agendas, by biometric passport rules as much as competition between local security agencies. This book draws on the author's multi-sited ethnography in Mauritania and Senegal, showing how border security practices and technologies operate to build state security capacity, transform how state agencies work, and produce new forms of authority and expertise
Item Description:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 Jul 2018)
Physical Description:	1 Online-Ressource (viii, 218 Seiten)
ISBN:	9781108556095
DOI:	10.1017/9781108556095