Border Insecurity, Take Two
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance
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Published: 2006
Total Pages: 132
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance
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Published: 2006
Total Pages: 132
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Sylvia Longmire
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2014-04-22
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1137278900
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Discussing on-the-ground issues and controversies, this eye-opening look at the challenges of keeping terrorists, drug smugglers and illegal immigrants from entering the US across our land borders stresses the importance of establishing a clear and comprehensive border security strategy.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance
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Published: 2007
Total Pages: 92
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Andréanne Bissonnette
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-09-17
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 1000191036
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book addresses the recent evolution of borderlines around the world as an attempt to control transnational movements with a view to securitization of borders rooted in the need to control mobility and preserve national identities. This book moves beyond physical borders and studies new manifestations of borders such as technological and symbolic walls. It brings together scholars from various academic fields such as geography, political science, and border studies to examine the various movements, functions and articulations of international borders. It explores two main issues: how international borders have become enforced lines of demarcation and division, reinforcing national identity and impacting national and regional dynamics; and the material and immaterial, discursive and concrete expressions of borders and the impacts of the transformation of bodies into threat to be monitored, as daily lives become sites of border enforcement. Offering multidisciplinary insights on the growing phenomenon of border walls, this book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students of Border Studies, European Studies, International Relations, Political Geography, and Regional Studies.
Author: Reece Jones
Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.
Published: 2012-07-12
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 1848138261
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →*** Winner of the 2013 Julian Minghi Outstanding Research Award presented at the American Association of Geographers annual meeting *** Two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, why are leading democracies like the United States, India, and Israel building massive walls and fences on their borders? Despite predictions of a borderless world through globalization, these three countries alone have built an astonishing total of 5,700 kilometers of security barriers. In this groundbreaking work, Reece Jones analyzes how these controversial border security projects were justified in their respective countries, what consequences these physical barriers have on the lives of those living in these newly securitized spaces, and what long-term effects the hardening of political borders will have in these societies and globally. Border Walls is a bold, important intervention that demonstrates that the exclusion and violence necessary to secure the borders of the modern state often undermine the very ideals of freedom and democracy the barriers are meant to protect.
Author: Sylvia Longmire
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2014-04-22
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1137443731
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When confronted with the challenges of border security and illegal immigration, government officials are fond of saying that our borders have never been as safe and secure as they are now. But ranchers in the borderlands of Arizona and Texas fear for their lands, their cattle, their homes, and sometimes their lives due to the human and drug smuggling traffic that regularly crosses their property. Who is right? What does a secure border actually look like? More importantly, is a secure border a realistic goal for the United States? Border Insecurity examines all the aspects of the challenge—and thriving industry—of trying to keep terrorists, drug smugglers, and illegal immigrants from entering the United States across our land borders. It looks at on-the-ground issues and controversies like the border fence, the usefulness of technology, shifts in the connection between illegal immigration and drug smuggling, and the potential for terrorists and drug cartels to work together. Border Insecurity also delves into how the border debate itself is part of why the government has failed to improve information sharing and why this is necessary to establish a clear and comprehensive border security strategy.
Author: Gerard McLinden
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2010-11-30
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780821385975
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Border clearance processes by customs and other agencies are among the most important and problematic links in the global supply chain. Delays and costs at the border undermine a country’s competitiveness, either by taxing imported inputs with deadweight inefficiencies or by adding costs and reducing the competitiveness of exports. This book provides a practical guide to assist policy makers, administrators, and border management professionals with information and advice on how to improve border management systems, procedures, and institutions.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance
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Published: 2005
Total Pages: 260
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Alexander C. Diener
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2024
Total Pages: 169
ISBN-13: 0197549608
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This second edition of Borders: A Very Short Introduction challenges the perception of borders as passive lines on a map, revealing them instead to be integral forces in the economic, social, political, and environmental processes that shape our lives.
Author: Christopher Changwe Nshimbi
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-11-19
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 1000203395
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book examines the enduring significance of borders in Southern Africa, covering encounters between people, ideas and matter, and the new spatialities and transformations they generate in their historical, social, economic and cultural contexts. Situated within debates on borders, borderlands, sub- and regional integration, this volume examines local, grassroots and non-state actors and their cross-border economic and sociocultural encounters and contestations. Particular attention is also paid on the role they play in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region and its integration project in its multiplicity. The interdisciplinary chapters address the diverse human activities relating to cross-border economic and sociocultural encounters and contestations that are manifested through multiform and -scalar interactions between or among grassroots actors, involving engagements between grassroots actors and the state or its agencies, and/or to the broader arrangements that bear consequences of the first two upon regional integration. By bringing these different, at times contrasting, forms of interaction under a holistic analysis, this volume devises novel ways to understand the persistence and role of borders and their relation to new transnational and transcultural integrative phenomena at various levels, extending from the (nation-)state and the political to the cultural and social at the everyday level of border practices. Scholars and students of African studies, geography, economics, politics, sociology and border studies will find this book useful.