Connecting Border Studies and Border Policy: Exploring the Canada–U.S. Context

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Laurie Trautman
Keyword(s):  
Border Studies ◽  
Border Policy

scholarly journals Lines of (In)Convenience: Sovereignty and Border-Making in Postcolonial South Asia, 1947–1965

2017 ◽  
Vol 76 (4) ◽  
pp. 963-985 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Leake ◽  
Daniel Haines
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Border Studies ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Border Zone ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Archival History ◽  
Bounded Space ◽  
Border Policy

Border studies in South Asia privilege everyday experiences, and the constructed nature of borders and state sovereignty. This article argues that state elites in India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan during the 1950s and 1960s actively pursued territorial sovereignty through border policy, having inherited ambiguous colonial-era frontiers. By comparing security and development activities along the Durand Line, between Afghanistan and Pakistan, with the better-known case of India and Pakistan's ceasefire line in Kashmir, this article demonstrates that the exercise of sovereignty required a bounded space that only borders could provide and a rejection of competing border zone authorities. The local specificity of each border, however, created the historical conditions in which political elites acted. Combining an archival history methodology with conceptual insights from political geography and critical international relations, this article uses an original integration of two important Asian border spaces into one analysis to highlight tensions between sovereignty's theory and practice.

scholarly journals NATIONAL PRIORITIES OF THE BORDER POLICY OF THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKHSTAN: NEW PARADIGMS UNDER CONDITIONS OF SOVEREIGNTY

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 519-525
Author(s):  
Sergey Mikhaylovich Saliy ◽  
Gulnar Issayevna Moldakhanova ◽  
Sergey Petrovich Mosov ◽  
Gulshat Polatovna Rysbayeva ◽  
Alexander Sergeyevich Martikyan
Keyword(s):  
Border Studies ◽  
Theoretical Base ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Foreign Politics ◽  
Close Study ◽  
Border Policy ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Modern Perspective

Purpose: The purpose of this article is to study the main domestic and foreign politics defining national priorities of the Border Policy of the Republic of Kazakhstan under conditions of sovereignty. Methodology: Scientific-theoretical base and methodologies of foreign and domestic border studies are an object of research. Features of existing modern international approaches in the research of Border Policy issues are considered. Main Findings: Specifics of domestic border studies formation and its theoretical-methodological base were analyzed, on the basis of the works of the Kazakhstan Scientists publicly available. Theoretical-methodological bases of domestic border studies were defined. Applications: The study may be used for further determination of the national priorities of the border policy of the Republic of Kazakhstan and for the close study of new paradigms in border policy tendencies under conditions of sovereignty. Novelty/Originality: The study generalizes the most feature streams and modern perspective tendencies of the border policy of the Republic of Kazakhstan what has never been done before in the selected points of view and by involving listed methodology.

Immigration Law and Border Studies

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Çirakolli Paula ◽  
Matuka Adelajda
Keyword(s):  
Border Studies ◽  
Immigration Law

Deconstructing Turkey’s “Open Door” Policy towards Refugees from Syria

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 209-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Burcu Togral Koca
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Border Studies ◽  
Open Door ◽  
Open Door Policy ◽  
Security Framework ◽  
Liberal Policy ◽  
The Way

Turkey has followed an “open door” policy towards refugees from Syria since the March 2011 outbreak of the devastating civil war in Syria. This “liberal” policy has been accompanied by a “humanitarian discourse” regarding the admission and accommodation of the refugees. In such a context, it is widely claimed that Turkey has not adopted a securitization strategy in its dealings with the refugees. However, this article argues that the stated “open door” approach and its limitations have gone largely unexamined. The assertion is, here, refugees fleeing Syria have been integrated into a security framework embedding exclusionary, militarized and technologized border practices. Drawing on the critical border studies, the article deconstructs these practices and the way they are violating the principle of non-refoulement in particular and human rights of refugees in general. 

Penguatan Wilayah Perbatasan: Studi Kasus Pulau Sebatik Kabupaten Nunukan Provinsi Kalimantan Timur

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 110
Author(s):  
Baskoro Wicaksono
Keyword(s):  
Central Government ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Research Strategy ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Public ◽  
East Kalimantan ◽  
Border Policy

This study describes the border management policy conducted by the central government, provinceof East Kalimantan and Nunukan. Policies such as the establishment of regulatory, institutionalstrengthening, programs and infrastructure development. The policy is getting good responsefrom the elite and the masses. On the other hand policy makers have expectations of localcommunities border synergism Sebatik Island in order to build and develop the border areas so asto break the chain of dependence on Malaysia. The research was conducted in Sebatik Island,East Kalimantan province Nunukan with the formulation of the problem (a) what policies areoriented to maintain borders, (b) How is the public response to government policy, (c) What areyour expectations of policy makers in local communities to regional border. This study usedqualitative methods to phenomenological research strategy. Techniques of data collection in thisstudy using two ways, namely in-depth interviews and secondary data view Results indicate thatthe existing policy of both the central and provincial to district borders do not solve the problembecause it is made on the island of Sebatik with other border regions. The policy does not includelocal knowledge, where it is desperately needed by the people Sebatik. In addition to policies onprograms and infrastructure development of the center, the district adopted a policy of inactionagainst the illegal cross-border trade, which on the one hand against the rules but if enforced thenpeople can not perform economic activities that impact well-being. Policies like this gets a positiveresponse from the public. Expectations for the future border policy is to load local content orlocal knowledge.Keyword: border policy, local knowledge, dependent relationship

Migration, Borders, and Identity in the Latin American Context

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Velasco Ortiz
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Human Mobility ◽  
Empirical Relationship ◽  
Border Studies ◽  
Border Control ◽  
Border Regions ◽  
Identity Processes ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Global Connections ◽  
A Current

In concert with more localized analyses of border regions, the Border Studies field has contributed to our understanding of how mobility affects identity. The distinction between cultural and identification boundaries has proved relevant for analyzing the identity processes that arise in border interactions typically marked by ambiguity and contradiction. However, the current migratory context is defined by dehumanizing social and political inequalities. This poses a conceptual challenge to understanding the subjectivities produced by the current policies of border control that dehumanize the immigrant and mobile person. This chapter reflects on the conceptual and empirical relationship between migration, borders, and identity in a current climate characterized by global connections and nation-states’ increasing border control over human mobility. It also analyzes the symbolic dimension of state border control and its consequences for constituting identities.

Borders as penal transplants: Control of territory, mobility and illegality in West Africa

2021 ◽  
pp. 136248062199545
Author(s):  
Eva Magdalena Stambøl
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Crime Control ◽  
Border Studies ◽  
Border Security ◽  
Mobility Control ◽  
Spatial Awareness ◽  
Control Order ◽  
Political Technology ◽  
Geographical Scope

This article explores an increasingly significant trend in crime and mobility control that has received scant criminological attention: border externalization, specifically scrutinizing land border security-building by international actors in West Africa. Going beyond the usual focus on migration in border studies, it develops a criminologically grounded theorization of the border as a political technology of crime control and its relationship to the state. This is done by arguing that borders, theorized as ‘penal transplants’ embodying specific (western) visions of state, political power, social control/order and territoriality, are transformed and often distorted when performed in ‘heterarchical’ contexts in the global South. Further, empirically based concepts from ‘the periphery’ are suggested to enrich border criminology, broadening its geographical scope and spatial awareness.

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