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Using examples from Canada, Australia, and the United States, Mountz demonstrates the centrality of space and place in efforts to control the fate of unwanted migrants.



Table of Contents
Acknowledgments, Abbreviations, Introduction: Struggles to Land in States of Migration, 1. Human Smuggling and Refugee Protection, 2. Seeing Borders like a State, 3. Ethnography of the State, 4. Crisis and the Making of the Bogus Refugee, 5. Stateless by Geographical Design, 6. In the Shadows of the State, 7. What Kind of State Are We In? Notes, Bibliography, Index

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      Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
      Publication Date: 08/04/2010
      ISBN13: 9780816665389, 978-0816665389
      ISBN10: 0816665389
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      Migration, immigration and emigration

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Using examples from Canada, Australia, and the United States, Mountz demonstrates the centrality of space and place in efforts to control the fate of unwanted migrants.



      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments, Abbreviations, Introduction: Struggles to Land in States of Migration, 1. Human Smuggling and Refugee Protection, 2. Seeing Borders like a State, 3. Ethnography of the State, 4. Crisis and the Making of the Bogus Refugee, 5. Stateless by Geographical Design, 6. In the Shadows of the State, 7. What Kind of State Are We In? Notes, Bibliography, Index

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