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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Border politics: contests over territory, nation, identity, and belonging -- 2. "Border granny wants you!": grandmothers policing nation at the us-Mexico border -- 3. Defending the nation: militarism, women's empowerment, and the Hindu right -- 4. Borders, territory, and ethnicity: women and the naga peace process -- 5. Imperial gazes and queer politics: re/reading female political subjectivity in Pakistan -- 6. Indigenous peoples and colonial borders: sovereignty, nationhood, identity, and activism -- 7. Constricting boundaries: collective identity in the tea party movement -- 8. Occupy Slovenia: how migrant movements contributed to new forms of direct democracy -- 9. Challenging borders, imagining Europe: transnational lgbt activism in a new Europe -- 10. Frames, boomerangs, and global assemblages: border distortions in the global resistance to dam building in Lesotho -- 11. Networks, place, and barriers to cross-border organizing: "no border" camping in transcarpathia, Ukraine -- 12. "Giving wings to our dreams": binational activism and workers' rights struggles in the San Diego–Tijuana border region -- 13. Border politics: creating a dialogue between border studies and social movements -- About the contributors -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Editors' Preface -- Editors' Introduction -- 1. Sexuality, Migration, and Identity -- 2. Border Patrol -- 3. Border Crossers -- 4. De Los Otros -- 5. De Ambiente -- 6. A Place Called Home -- 7. Entre Hombres/Between Men -- 8. Toward a Queer Political Economy of Sexuality -- Editors' Conclusion -- Afterword -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Editors

Trans is usually defined as the set of practices and identities outside of the binary gender system and includes individuals who identity as genderqueer, transgender or transsexual. Trans theories refer to a range of approaches including medical and psychiatric theories, performativity and social constructionist theories, and queer theory, that are used to explain transgender practices and identities.

The concept of work-family balance was introduced in the 1970s in the United Kingdom based on a work-leisure dichotomy, which was invented in the mid-1800s. It is usually related to the act of balancing of inter-role pressures between the work and family domains that leads to role conflict. The conflict is driven by the organizations' views of the "ideal worker" as well as gender disparities and stereotypes that ignore or discount the time spent in the unpaid work of family and community. Solutions for balance include legislation, flexible workplace arrangements, and the market care services.

Emotion work is usually defined as the psychological processes necessary to regulate emotions that are desired in specific private life conditions. When controlling the intensity and quality of the individual's feelings is related to the public sphere and undertaken for reasons associated with paid work it is called emotional labor. Such employment occurs in contemporary service economies where the provision of services is often related to "selling feelings," which is mainly performed by women.

The dual labor market theory is one of the primary explanations for the gender differences in earnings. It shows that gender inequality and stereotypes lead to employment of men and women in different segments of the labor market characterized by various incomes. This theory is based on the hypothesis that such markets are divided into segments, which are divided by different rules of conduct for workers and employers. Differences also include production conditions, terms of employment, productivity of employees, and the characteristics of the workers' jobs. This labor division is related to employee characteristics such as gender, age, and race that define their work environment and lifestyle.

In the current historical moment borders have taken on heightened material and symbolic significance, shaping identities and the social and political landscape. "Borders"—defined broadly to include territorial dividing lines as well as sociocultural boundaries—have become increasingly salient sites of struggle over social belonging and cultural and material resources. How do contemporary activists navigate and challenge these borders? What meanings do they ascribe to different social, cultural and political boundaries, and how do these meanings shape the strategies in which they engage? Moreover, how do these social movements confront internal borders based on the differences that emerge within social change initiatives?Border Politics, edited by Nancy A. Naples and Jennifer Bickham Mendez, explores these important questions through eleven carefully selected case studies situated in geographic contexts around the globe. By conceptualizing struggles over identity, social belonging and exclusion as extensions of border politics, the authors capture the complex ways in which geographic, cultural, and symbolic dividing lines are blurred and transcended, but also fortified and redrawn. This volume notably places right-wing and social justice initiatives in the same analytical frame to identify patterns that span the political spectrum. Border Politics offers a lens through which to understand borders as sites of diverse struggles, as well as the strategies and practices used by diverse social movements in today's globally interconnected world. Contributors: Phillip Ayoub, Renata Blumberg, Yvonne Braun, Moon Charania, Michael Dreiling, Jennifer Johnson, Jesse Klein, Andrej Kurnik, Sarah Maddison, Duncan McDuie-Ra, Jennifer Bickham Mendez, Nancy A. Naples, David Paternotte, Maple Razsa, Raphi Rechitsky, Kyle Rogers, Deana Rohlinger, Cristina Sanidad, Meera Sehgal, Tara Stamm, Michelle Téllez

A multidisciplinary group of scholars examines how the actions of the United States as a global leader are worsening pressures on people worldwide to migrate, while simultaneously degrading migrant rights. Uniting such diverse issues as market reform, drug policy, and terrorism under a common framework of human rights, the book constitutes a call for a new vision on immigration