Globalization and borders: death at the global frontier

This book analyzes the political and material conditions driving contemporaryborder control policies and discusses the processes that mediate popular and official understandings of border-related fatalities. LEANNE WEBER Senior Research Fellow at Monash University, Australia. She is co-editor of 'Borders, Mobility and Technologies of Control' and has published extensively on the detention of asylum seekers, the policing of migration and the nature of contemporary borders. SHARON PICKERING Professor of Criminology and Head of the Criminology program at Monash University, Australia. She isthe Editor of the 'Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology' and theauthor of 'Women, Policing and Resistance in Northern Ireland, Refugees and State Crime,' 'Critical Chatter: Women and Human Rights in South East Asia 'and'Borders and Violence.' INDICE: List of Tables, Figures and Images - Acknowledgements - List of Acronyms - Introduction: Globalization and Borders - PART I: Border Autopsy: Examining Contemporary Borders - Charting the Global Frontier - Counting and Discounting Border Deaths - Accounting for Deaths at the Border - PART II: Border Inquest: Misadventure or Death by Policy? - Structural Violence - Suspicious Deaths - Suicide and Self-harm - PART III: From Finding Truth to Preventing Border Harm - The Ambiguous Architecture of Risk - Conclusion: Preventing Death by Sovereignty - Notes - Bibliography - Index

• ISBN: 978-0-230-24734-5
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 264
• Fecha Publicación: 11/11/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés