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Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Where is the Border? -- SECTION I THEORIZING THE BORDER IN EVERYDAY LIFE -- 2 The Vernacularization of Borders -- 3 Policing Borders, Policing Bodies: The Territorial and Biopolitical Roots of US Immigration Control -- SECTION II BORDER WORK BY NON-TRADITIONAL ACTORS NEAR THE BORDER -- 4 Locating the Border in Boundary Bay: Non-Point Pollution, Contaminated Shellfish, and Transboundary Governance -- 5 A Basis for Bordering: Land, Migration, and Inter-Tohono O' odham Distinction Along the US–Mexico Line -- 6 Whose Border? Border Talk and Discursive Governance of the Salween River-Border -- 7 Crossing Lines, Crossed by Lines: Everyday Practices and Local Border Traffic in Schengen Regulated Borderlands -- SECTION III BORDER WORK BY NON-TRADITIONAL ACTORS AWAY FROM THE BORDER -- 8 Symbolic Bordering and the Securitization of Identity Markers in Nigeria's Ethno-Religiously Segregated City of Jos -- 9 Border Wars: Narratives and Images of the US–Mexico Border on TV -- 10 Latin American Borders on the Lookout: Recreating Borders through Art in the Mercosul -- 11 "No Place Like Home": Boundary Traffic through the Prison Gate -- 12 Conclusion

Placing the Border in Everyday Life complicates the connection between borders and sovereign states by identifying the individuals and organizations that engage in border work at a range of scales and places. This edited volume includes contributions from major international scholars in the field of border studies and allied disciplines who analyze where and why border work is done. By combining a new theorization of border work beyond the state with rich empirical case studies, this book makes a ground-breaking contribution to the study of borders and the state in the era of globalization.

This article considers the trend in many countries towards securitised immigration policies and "hardening" of borders through the construction of walls or fences. In contrast the borderless world of globalisation, it identifies these attempts to strengthen control of borders as teichopolitics: the politics of building barriers. This article analyses the different types of hardened borders that exist today and proposes a typology of frontlines, fences/walls, and closed straights. Then the article maps the locations of these barriers and argues that although other justifications ranging from smuggling to terrorism are often put forward, these barriers are mostly connected with managing immigration flows. Indeed, many of these barriers are located on important economic or social discontinuity lines, precisely where the system reveals its underlying logics. These walls and fences symbolise the emergence of a privileged few who actually live the promise of globalisation and defend its privileges through teichopolitics. Adapted from the source document.

The world is experiencing one of the largest movements of people in history with 65 million people displaced by conflict in 2015, the majority of which were from Asia. This book brings a deep engagement with individuals whose lives are shaped by encounters with borders by telling the stories of a poor Bangladeshi women who regularly crosses the India border to visit family, of Muslims from India living in Gulf countries for work, and the harrowing journey of a young Afghan man as he sets off on foot to Germany. The international and interdisciplinary work in this book contributes to this moment by analyzing how borders are experienced by migrants and borderlanders in South Asia, how mobility and diaspora are engaged in literature and media, and how the lives of migrants are transformed during their journey to new homes in South Asia, the Middle East, North America, and Europe.