17 North Korean Border-Crossers

2021 ◽  
pp. 375-400
Author(s):  
Hee Choi
Keyword(s):  
Border Crossers

scholarly journals STRATEGI PEMERINTAH REPUBLIK INDONESIA DALAM PENANGANAN MASALAH PELINTAS BATAS INDONESIA-TIMOR LESTE

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 170
Author(s):  
Remigius Seran
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Security Policy ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Local Politics ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Community Resistance ◽  
Cultural Approach ◽  
Timor Leste ◽  
Border Crossers

ABSTRACTThe urgency to set up the Border Between Indonesia and Timor-Leste and the border crossers is based on much more complex historical reasons than the arrangement of Indonesia's borders with other countries. Border governance policies between Indonesia and Timor-Leste are characterized by: border governance policies indicate a desire to adopt an integrated approach, governance practices tend to be fragmented where two very dominant approaches are the security approach and the socio-economic welfare approach. A border governance policy that ignores cultural identity variables leads to a reverse response, namely the use of cultural identity to challenge the country's dominant conception and policy in border governance. The phenomenon of "rat road" and other cross-border interaction networks called illegal by the state can be read as a form of local community resistance to the claim of state sovereignty over the border. In an integrated border governance policy, a cultural approach should be one of the main components that characterize other approaches. Jailly puts the four dimensions of the policy parallel, the cultural approach in border governance policy to the principles that fuel security policy, local politics and economic policy in border governance. The practical consequence of this study is the policy that border governance must move beyond the dominance of the economic security approach to an integrated approach. This study proposes the concept of trans-border social and cultural space as an important element in integrated border governance.Key Words: Border governance, Indonesia – Timor-Leste, Cultural crosser borders.

Risky Border Crossings

2019 ◽  
pp. 19-31
Author(s):  
Jason De León
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Border Crossings ◽  
Undocumented Migrants ◽  
Border Enforcement ◽  
Killing Field ◽  
Risk Of Death ◽  
Enforcement Policy ◽  
Mexico Border ◽  
Border Crossers

De León provides a critique of “Prevention through Deterrence,” the federal border enforcement policy that encourages migrants to cross in areas characterized by extreme environmental conditions and a high risk of death. This policy has failed to deter border crossers while successfully turning the rugged terrain of southern Arizona into a killing field for all undocumented migrants. The threatening space of the U.S.-Mexico border poses particular threats to children and youth who are attempting to cross, especially when crossing without adult family members. Guides and smugglers typically facilitate the movement of young people, or—which is equally dangerous—children increasingly attempt to cross alone or with groups of other children. As children and youth are apprehended trying to enter the United States, they also enter a complicated system of immigration enforcement and detention.

scholarly journals Performing Borders: Queer and Trans Experiences at the Canadian Border

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (7) ◽  
pp. 201
Author(s):  
Edwin Hodge ◽  
Helga Hallgrimsdottir ◽  
Marianne Much
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Border Crossings ◽  
Biometric Security ◽  
Border Crossers ◽  
Security Screenings ◽  
Screening Systems

Biometric security and screening systems have revolutionized border crossings. As bodies move across the physical space of the borderland, the border moves through them, scanning and cataloguing and scrutinizing bodies for irregularity. While such technologies have been scrutinized, they have largely been so through heteronormative and cisnormative lenses that fail to recognize the vastly different experiences of nonbinary, nonconforming, transgender, and queer border crossers. This paper examines the implications of what we argue is the individualization of the border, and the effects of biometric security screenings for people whose bodies do not conform to heteronormative and cisnormative standards. We argue that border securitization increasingly equates body differences to narratives of threat and risk, which endangers nonbinary, trans, and queer border crossers, and places their safe passage at risk.

Hostile hospitality and the criminalization of civil society actors aiding border crossers in Greece

2020 ◽  
pp. 026377582095870
Author(s):  
Laura Schack ◽  
Ashley Witcher
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Field Research ◽  
State Policies ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Search And Rescue ◽  
Constitutive Relationship ◽  
The Core ◽  
Police Harassment ◽  
Key Features ◽  
Border Crossers

Civil society actors aiding border crossers in Europe have been subject to systematic criminalization through prosecutions and attempted prosecutions, extensive police harassment, public scapegoating, and the imposition of bureaucratic barriers. We seek to explain why this is occurring through the analysis of field research data, collected in Greece between 2017 and 2019, through the lens of Derrida’s concept of “hostile hospitality”. We develop a theoretical framework with three key features: first, the demarcation between insider and outsider which lies at the core of notions of hospitality; second, the constitutive relationship between hostility and hospitality which is closely related to notions of sovereignty; and third, the primacy of state definitions of hospitality, which subordinate private and collective hospitality practices. This explanatory framework guides the analysis of two case studies from our fieldwork: the criminalization of solidarity initiatives providing accommodation in squats in Athens and Pikpa camp on Lesvos, and the criminalization of boat-spotting and search and rescue activities on Lesvos. We conclude that civil society actors aiding border crossers in Greece are criminalized because they challenge and interfere with state policies and practices of hostile hospitality.

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