Description
Book SynopsisA non-Eurocentric, interdisciplinary collection arguing that boundaries and borders are best understood as overlapping categories.
Trade Review'This volume is the first to bring together two distinct phenomena usually studied in separate strands of research: how migration regimes police the territorial boundaries of states, and how differentiating between and discriminating against minority groups creates social boundaries within states. An important and timely intellectual move' -- Andreas Wimmer, author of 'Ethnic Boundary Making: Institutions, Networks, Power'
'This is a splendid collection of essays that illustrates how racial, gender and class-based discrimination is instrumental to the justification of the state's right to exclude. With case studies from five continents and genuinely interdisciplinary contributions, this volume is an indispensable theoretical and political tool for reflecting on migration and territorial rights in the 21st century' -- Lea Ypi, author of 'Global Justice and Avant-Garde Political Agency'
Table of Contents1. Introduction: Connecting Borders and Boundaries - Didier Fassin
PART I: POLITICAL AND MORAL ECONOMIES
2. What Money Can Buy: Citizenship by Investment on a Global Scale - Kristin Surak
3. Monitoring International Labor Precarity: The State Management of Migrant Domestic Workers - Rhacel Parreñas
4. When Migrants Claim Blood Kinship: Constructing Hierarchies of Human Worth - Ays¸e Parla
5. Family Resemblances: Binational Marriage, Muslim “Communalism,” and the Patriarchal State - Mayanthi Fernando
PART II: LEGAL DISBARRING
6. An Earlier Ban: Chinese Exclusion and Plenary Power - Mae Ngai
7. Manners of Exclusion: From the Asiatic Barred Zone to the Muslim Ban - Sherally Munshi
8. Brave New Worlds: The Racial Regimes of the Americas - Michael Hanchard
9. The Outlawed: Landscapes of Human Rights - Tugba Basaran
PART III: CREATING SPACES
10. Protection: Sanctuary and the Contested Ethics of Presence in the United States - Linda Bosniak
11. Ruination and Rebuilding: The Precarious Place of a Border Town in Gaza - Ilana Feldman
12. Symmetry and Affinity: Comparing Borders and Border-Making Processes in Africa - Paul Nugent
Notes on Contributors
Index
