Racism and Borders
Representation, Repression, Resistance
Published on 1. January 2010
192 pages
978-0-87586-809-7 (ISBN)
Description
Despite claims about globalization, we see increasing surveillance, tightened restrictions and growing punitive regimes at international borders.This critical collection examines processes of racialization in relation to border regulations and restrictions. It analyses border controls, racism, and representations of race, within multinational contexts as aspects of neo-liberal governance. It also looks at means by which people resist or challenge racialization.This collection uses the lenses of sociology, criminology, art, literary criticism and political science to critically examine varied processes of racialization, criminalization and resistance in relation to borders with reference to multi-national contexts in the current period.
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Content
- Intro
- Introduction: Contemporary Border Struggles
- References
- Chapter 1. Racial profiling at the borders: Implications for National and Human Security
- History
- Scope and Effects Post 9/11
- Civil vs. Human Rights
- Advantages of the Human Rights Paradigm
- Benefits for Research
- Conclusion
- Note
- References
- Chapter 2. Racial Profiling
- Criticisms of s44 Policing Powers Used as "Routine"
- Targeting Muslim, Black and Asian Ethnic Groups
- Racial Profiling: History, Definition, Proof
- Apparent Sanctioning of Formal Ethnic Profiling
- Proving Ethnic Profiling
- Analysis and Methodology
- National Trends 2001-2008
- Table 1. England & Wales National Police and MET police Section 44 Stop & Search Data, 2001/2-2007/8
- Table 2. England & Wales and MET Police Section 44 Stop & Search Data, by Ethnic Proportions Stopped, 2001/2-2007/8
- MET-London
- Table 5. MET Section 44 Stop & Search Data, by ethnicity and month, June-September 2007
- Alienating and Stigmatizing Communities
- Discussion: Change the Law
- Clarity and Transparency
- Ethnic Monitoring
- The Media and Officer Perceptions
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Chapter 3. Race and Imperialism: Migration and Border Control in the Canadian State
- Migrant Worker Programs: A Model of Transient Servitude
- Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program: Harvesting Injustice
- The Live-In Caregiver Program: The Feminization of Migration
- Securing Borders and Labor Flexibility
- The Apartheid of Citizenship
- Building Alliances of Solidarity not Charity
- Good Enough to Work, Good Enough to Stay
- Stolen Labor on Stolen Land
- One for All, All for One
- Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 4. Consuming Fears: Neo-liberal In/Securities, Cannibalization, and Psychopolitics
- Psychocentrism and the Psychopolitics of Neo-liberalism
- A Sociological Teratology: Global Capitalism as Cannibalization and Carnivalization
- Genealogizing the Dangerized: From Moral Insanity to Mental Illness
- Conceptualizing a Typology of Cannibalism
- Governing through Insecurity: Policing the Production of Disorder
- Dangerization, Risk, and Victimization
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Chapter 5. "Border Panic" and the Bounds of Racial Identity
- Border Panic
- South of the Border
- Border Business and Racial Values
- Border Politics and the Properties of Whiteness
- The Mongrel Twenties
- Notes
- References
- Chapter 6. White-Out
- Chapter 7. "Self" and "the Other" A Journey of Mutual Recognition
- Still Becoming Nurtured in the Hospitality of Conversations
- Notes
- References
- Chapter 8. No One Is Illegal: Resistance and Borders
- Racist Immigration Practices in Canada Since September 11
- "No One Is Illegal": Organizing Defense of Immigrants and Refugees in Canada
- Flying Squads and Labor Unity
- A New Underground Railroad?
- Beginning to Build Bridges Towards De-colonization
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Contributors
- Index
