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Challenging Borders: Contingencies and Consequences

Challenging Borders: Contingencies and Consequences

McManus, Sheila
Young, Julie
McKenzie-Jones, Paul

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General Political ScienceGeneral SociologyImmigration & Refugees

ISBN10: 1771994010
ISBN13: 9781771994019
Publisher: Athabasca University Press
Published: May 27 2025
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Analyzing the geographies of oppression and resistance from compelling new angles.

Borders are known for their paradoxical qualities. Sometimes they are shifting and porous, lines in the sand constituted more by subjective experience than by legal definition; at other times they harden into walls, are heavily securitized, and their primary function becomes keeping the unwanted out. Challenging Borders: Contingencies and Consequences sets out to explore the concrete, complex effects of borders on human aspirations and lives, while at the same time underscoring the diversity of individual encounters with these deceptively invisible lines.

Drawing on insights from history, geography, Indigenous studies, political science, refugee and migration studies, the visual arts, and even physics, contributors to the collection examine the role of borders in the ongoing negotiation of national identities, in contested claims of sovereignty and belonging, in the tensions between freedom of movement and restrictions on entry, and in the use of violence in the name of security.

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