Borders, Mobility and Technologies of Control

Abstract

Borders, Mobility and Technologies of Control focuses on borders and the significance, from a criminological point of view, of the activities which take place on and around them. For many, the border is an everyday reality; a space in which to live; a land necessary to cross once, twice or many times; a space of sanctuary; a dangerous space. Often the border can be many or all of these things at once. For states, the border space increasingly requires protection and defence. It is also increasingly at the centre of state ideology and performance, the site for investing significant political and material resources, and is ultimately ungovernable.In a rapidly globalising world, territorial borders are taking on a new significance, the implications of which are relatively unexplored within the discipline of criminology. Traditionally, criminology has aligned its own disciplinary boundaries with those of the nation-state, concerning itself with behaviours defined as criminal by state or national governments and with the institutions and enforcement practices of state actors confined within territorial boundaries and compared across territorially-bounded spaces. This approach is increasingly recognised as inadequate in the context of greatly increased levels of traditional cross-border crime, innovative technologies which create new opportunities both for criminal exploitation and new techniques of state control, and a widespread climate of fear and insecurity arising from global economic and political threats, transnational terrorism, and changing conceptions of the powers and responsibilities of the nationstate.Borders, Mobility and Technologies of Control is specifically interested in how physical borders are impacting on the mobility of people. Concomitantly, it is concerned with how the state exercises its authority at and around the border and how it is experienced and understood by those

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