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“It is Not Even My Body”: Trans Persons Experiencing Body Borders
The body is at the forefront of the relationship between space and sexuality, and its materiality is the basis on which social and individual...
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The Securitisation of African Borders
In this chapter, I examine the securitisation of African borders in order to determine the extent to which securitisation as a practice has...
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“Crossing borders, connecting cultures”: an introduction to the special issue
This special issue of Comparative Migration Studies on the occasion of the IMISCOE 2021 Conference with the theme “Crossing borders, connecting...
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Contested Appropriations: Informal Migrant Settlements as Ambiguous Spaces Beyond Temporal Borders
Temporalities of control are a key element of the migration reception regime: deadlines, waiting times, and limited durations of stay link safe...
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Crossing Borders in Southern Africa
Migrating, in terms of moving and changing one’s place of residence more or less permanently, has always been happening. Crossing borders, however,...
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Geo-topology of Networks of Borders
Network models of the land borders of the European countries are constructed for four different time instants: the beginning of the twentieth century...
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Labor Borders: Recruitment of Central American Migrants in “Exodus” through Southern Mexico and Indigenous Mexican “Braceros” in the Californian Fields
The article proposes the concept of “labor border” to explore the evolution of migration policies in the Central America-Mexico-USA region by...
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Some Timeless and Contemporary Borders
Although I’m an immigrant who, having lived in 4 different countries, has countless stories and anecdotes (Particulars) that can relate to this...
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An Open Borders World
A world with open borders, as some strongly advocate while others insist on maintaining controlled borders, is an interesting exercise to consider...
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Caregiving Across International Borders: a Systematic Review of Literature on Transnational Carer-Employees
In diaspora and transnational studies little is known about the experiences of transnational carer-employees (TCEs). TCEs provide unpaid/informal...
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Visualizing Borders: M.I.A.’s “Borders” and Mural Art in Ciudad Juárez and El Paso
This chapter explores the border in visual culture—in the work of the British musician M.I.A. and in three murals in the border cities of Ciudad...
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Theorizing Borders in the Shadow of Imperial Violence
This chapter examines some of the key contributions from the field of border studies over the last 25 years, noting that while many of the critics...
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European Borders in Migration and Pandemic Times: Paradigmatic Changes
Reasoning and research through the discourse of “crisis” as a starting-and-ending point have produced representations of mass migration and...
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Borders, Citizenship, ‘Imagined Community’ and ‘Exclusive State’ and Migration in Southeast Asia
Benedict Anderson (1991) suggested ‘a Nation-state is an imagined political community. It is imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign’....
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Pandemic, Borders and New Technology—Distance Breaking Media (DBM)
During the pandemic period, decision-makers were forced to quickly change the course of mobility in their society to avoid “dangerous situation” if...
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Bearing witness through pandemic borders and film: convergent media, mobility and Windrush Betrayal
This paper examines the role of convergent media and the film, Windrush Betrayal (2020), in representing and challenging borders, mobilities and UK...
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Pigs, people and politics: the (re)drawing of Denmark’s biological, politico-geographical, and genomic ‘borders’
This paper tracks the regulation of the border crossings of pigs and people in and out of Denmark. By bringing together pig and human unborn life,...
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Self-Construction in the World Web and the Borders of Freedom in Pandemic Times
The paper investigates the epochal shift caused by the digital technology in the redrafting our mental map concerning the borders of inner psychic...
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Borders Revisited Discourses on the UK Border
The nature and configuration of borders, and the relationship between state borders and societies, have changed. In the 21stcentury,...
