Borderscapes

Borderscapes

Hidden Geographies and Politics at Territory’s Edge

Prem Kumar Rajaram and Carl Grundy-Warr, editors

Table of Contents

$25.00 paper
ISBN: 978-0-8166-4926-6
ISBN-10: 0-8166-4926-X

$75.00 cloth
ISBN 978-0-8166-4925-9
ISBN-10 0-8166-4925-1

A multidisciplinary exploration of national borders—in theory and in practice.

Connecting critical issues of state sovereignty with empirical concerns, Borderscapes interrogates the limits of political space. The essays in this volume analyze everyday procedures, such as the classifying of migrants and refugees, security in European and American detention centers, and the DNA sampling of migrants in Thailand, showing the border as a moral construct rich with panic, danger, and patriotism.

Conceptualizing such places as immigration detention camps and refugee camps as areas of political contestation, this work forcefully argues that borders and migration are, ultimately, inextricable from questions of justice and its limits.

Contributors: Didier Bigo, Karin Dean, Elspeth Guild, Emma Haddad, Alexander Horstmann, Alice M. Nah, Suvendrini Perera, James D. Sidaway, Nevzat Soguk, Decha Tangseefa, Mika Toyota.

Prem Kumar Rajaram is associate professor of sociology and social anthropology at Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. Carl Grundy-Warr is senior lecturer of geography at National University of Singapore.

344 pages | 3 b&w photos | 5 7/8 x 9 | 2007
Borderlines Series, volume 29

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgment
Introduction
Prem Kumar Rajaram and Carl Grundy-Warr

I. Knowledge, Power, Surveillance
1. Detention of Foreigners, States of Exception, and the Social Practices of Control of the Banopticon
Didier Bigo
2. Struggling with (Il)Legality: The Indeterminate Functioning of Malaysia’s Borders for Asylum Seekers, Refugees, and Stateless Persons
Alice M. Nah
3. The Foreigner in the Security Continuum: Judicial Resistance in the United Kingdom
Elspeth Guild
4. Ambivalent Categories: Hill Tribes and Illegal Migrants in Thailand
Mika Toyota

II. Borderpanic: Representing Migrants and Borders
5. Danger Happens at the Border
Emma Haddad
6. Violence, Subversion, and Creativity in the Thai–Malaysian Borderland
Alexander Horstmann

III. Rethinking Borderscapes: Mapping Hidden Geographies
7. The Poetry of Boundaries
James D. Sidaway
8. The Sites of the Sino–Burmese and Thai–Burmese Boundaries: Transpositions between the Conceptual and Life Worlds
Karin Dean
9. A Pacific Zone? (In)Security, Sovereignty, and Stories of the Pacific Borderscape
Suvendrini Perera

IV. Rethinking Borderscapes: The New Political
10. “Temporary Shelter Areas” and the Paradox of Perceptibility: Imperceptible Naked-Karens in the Thai–Burmese Border Zones
Decha Tangseefa
11. Locating Political Space through Time: Asylum and Excision in Australia
Prem Kumar Rajaram
12. Border’s Capture: Insurrectional Politics, Border-Crossing Humans, and the New Political
Nevzat Soguk

Contributors
Index



Borderscapes *Hidden Geographies and Politics at Territory’s Edge* Prem Kumar Rajaram and Carl Grundy-Warr, editors Table of Contents		$25.00 paper ISBN: 978-0-8166-4926-6 ISBN-10: 0-8166-4926-X $75.00 cloth ISBN 978-0-8166-4925-9 ISBN-10 0-8166-4925-1
A multidisciplinary exploration of national borders—in theory and in practice. Connecting critical issues of state sovereignty with empirical concerns, Borderscapes interrogates the limits of political space. The essays in this volume analyze everyday procedures, such as the classifying of migrants and refugees, security in European and American detention centers, and the DNA sampling of migrants in Thailand, showing the border as a moral construct rich with panic, danger, and patriotism. Conceptualizing such places as immigration detention camps and refugee camps as areas of political contestation, this work forcefully argues that borders and migration are, ultimately, inextricable from questions of justice and its limits. Contributors: Didier Bigo, Karin Dean, Elspeth Guild, Emma Haddad, Alexander Horstmann, Alice M. Nah, Suvendrini Perera, James D. Sidaway, Nevzat Soguk, Decha Tangseefa, Mika Toyota. Prem Kumar Rajaram is associate professor of sociology and social anthropology at Central European University, Budapest, Hungary. Carl Grundy-Warr is senior lecturer of geography at National University of Singapore. 344 pages \| 3 b&w photos \| 5 7/8 x 9 \| 2007 Borderlines Series, volume 29 TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgment Introduction Prem Kumar Rajaram and Carl Grundy-Warr I. Knowledge, Power, Surveillance 1. Detention of Foreigners, States of Exception, and the Social Practices of Control of the Banopticon Didier Bigo 2. Struggling with (Il)Legality: The Indeterminate Functioning of Malaysia’s Borders for Asylum Seekers, Refugees, and Stateless Persons Alice M. Nah 3. The Foreigner in the Security Continuum: Judicial Resistance in the United Kingdom Elspeth Guild 4. Ambivalent Categories: Hill Tribes and Illegal Migrants in Thailand Mika Toyota II. Borderpanic: Representing Migrants and Borders 5. Danger Happens at the Border Emma Haddad 6. Violence, Subversion, and Creativity in the Thai–Malaysian Borderland Alexander Horstmann III. Rethinking Borderscapes: Mapping Hidden Geographies 7. The Poetry of Boundaries James D. Sidaway 8. The Sites of the Sino–Burmese and Thai–Burmese Boundaries: Transpositions between the Conceptual and Life Worlds Karin Dean 9. A Pacific Zone? (In)Security, Sovereignty, and Stories of the Pacific Borderscape Suvendrini Perera IV. Rethinking Borderscapes: The New Political 10. “Temporary Shelter Areas” and the Paradox of Perceptibility: Imperceptible Naked-Karens in the Thai–Burmese Border Zones Decha Tangseefa 11. Locating Political Space through Time: Asylum and Excision in Australia Prem Kumar Rajaram 12. Border’s Capture: Insurrectional Politics, Border-Crossing Humans, and the New Political Nevzat Soguk Contributors Index