Migration & Culture 2011
Contested Borders
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Research Question:
How do border controversies and migration policies at other contested borders around the world compare with those of the United States/Mexico border?
Click to see slide show on each contested border:
Costa Rica / Nicaragua
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The US/Mexico border is only one of several highly contested borders between nations around the world. Capital, commodities, technologies, culture, information, and wage remittances flow relatively freely across these borders, resulting in increased transnational integration. But in this accelerating “age of migration,” border crossing by human migrants has proved far more controversial, resulting in intensification of border securitization and militarization, surveillance and criminalization of migrants, restrictive legislative, legal, and cultural policies, xenophobia, vigilantism, human rights violations, and violence. At the same time, contested borders are prime sites for working out new technologies of border governance and seizing the possibilities offered by a global civil society. To enhance public understanding of what is at stake in such transnational border controversies, our posters provide a global, comparative perspective exploring several key currently contested borders where migrants figure in an important role.
Pages to the People
Follow the Migrant
Professor for Migration & Culture:
Kristin Koptiuch, Arizona State University at the West Campus, Phoenix, Arizona
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