DownloadThe Portobello Bookshop Gift Guide 2024

Borders

A Very Short Introduction

Alexander C Diener author Joshua Hagen author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc

Published:21st Mar '24

£8.99

Available for immediate dispatch.

Borders cover

First published in 2012, Borders: A Very Short Introduction began with the premise that "we live in a very bordered world." The intervening decade has witnessed a flurry of events and developments that continue to highlight the centrality of borders in contemporary domestic and international affairs, as well as the interstices between the two, including sudden surges in migrant and refugees flows; renewed emphasis on traditional border security and wall construction; growing tensions concerning maritime sovereignty; rapid advances in cybersecurity, surveillance, and biometrics; expanded detention and deportation infrastructures; proliferation of transborder organizations; revived populist and nationalist sentiments; and protectionist and integrationist trade practices, to name some prominent examples from recent headlines. This revised edition accounts for recent developments including Brexit, the 2015 migration crisis across Europe, efforts to build a border wall between the US and Mexico, growing isolationist and nativist sentiments, demands for indigenous homelands, transnational protest movements, Russian cross-border incursions, and insurgencies and rebellions across much of North Africa and Southwest Asia.

ISBN: 9780197549605

Dimensions: 168mm x 112mm x 15mm

Weight: 136g

168 pages

2nd Revised edition