Full Description
The border is one of the most urgent issues of our times. We tend to think of a border as a static line, but recent bordering techniques have broken away from the map, as governments have developed legal tools to limit the rights of migrants before and after they enter a country's territory. The consequent detachment of state power from any fixed geographical marker has created a new paradigm: the shifting border, an adjustable legal construct untethered in space. This transformation upsets our assumptions about waning sovereignty, while also revealing the limits of the populist push toward border-fortification. At the same time, it presents a tremendous opportunity to rethink states' responsibilities to migrants. This book proposes a new, functional approach to human mobility and access to membership in a world where borders, like people, have the capacity to move.
Contents
Series editor's foreword - Peter Niesen
Part I: Lead essay
1 The shifting border: legal cartographies of migration and mobility - Ayelet Shachar
Part II: Responses
2 Monsters, Inc.: the fight back - Sarah Fine
3 Migration, time and the shift toward autocracy - Noora Lori
4 Borders that stay, move, and expand - Steffen Mau
5 Pushing out and bleeding in: on the mobility of borders - Leti Volpp
6 The law and politics of the 'shifting border' - Chimène I. Keitner
7 The underrated premium of territorial arrival - Jakob Huber
Part III: Reply
8 The multiple sites of justice: a reply - Ayelet Shachar
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