Figure 9.1: Map signed by Sir Mark Sykes and François Georges-Picot, enclosed in Paul Cambon’s 9 May 1916 letter to Sir Edward Grey President Donald Trump, before leaving office, had hoped the United States could be walled off from Mexico on its southern border to combat the flow of bodies from the south. Pressures on the borders of the European Union, a direct consequence of recent wars in Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan, remind us of the porous and impermanent nature of all state lines. The trigger response of states on Europe’s eastern front, as of
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. How does Brexit change Northern Ireland’s system of government? Could it unravel crucial parts of Northern Ireland’s peace process? What are the wider implications of the arrangements for the Irish and UK constitutions?
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75 5 Reconsidering borders Why borders matter A recurrent theme in this volume is that the world in which public policy actors seek to move towards their preferred futures is an increasingly complex one. One dimension of this increasing complexity in policymaking is in the relationship between the territorial scale of existing political and administrative jurisdictions, such as nation states on a map, and the scale of major policy problems. From clean rivers, to population health, to migration, to crime, to macroeconomic management, to climate change
Introduction: Who can and cannot enter EUropean space? The mobility of the non-European Union population towards EU territory has recently dramatically redrawn the public’s attention to the problem of borders, both in the EU and in its neighbouring countries. Nearly three decades after the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the triumph of normative vision of borderless EUrope, there have been many dramatic and mediatised attempts to cross the very border of the European Union, either through the Mediterranean Sea, the massively razor-wired walls in the Spanish
73 5 Border Spaces and Places: the Age of the Camps Continuing the focus on space and place in imaginative criminology, this chapter discusses arts-based research (film and walking ethnographies) with asylum seekers and migrants waiting in border spaces, mostly in camps (in Greece, Syria and Melilla). The construction of the camp as a temporal, liminal, spatial site of containment and constraint, and a border space, and what this means in the lives of the people and families waiting, some for many years, is examined through narrative interviews
TWO Borders and walls Introduction On 22 August 2017, Leo Varadkar, the newly elected Taoiseach (Prime Minister) of Ireland, paid a visit to the US–Canada border. Varadkar was wrapping up his official tour of Canada, where he had sought to closely align himself with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The two leaders were photographed together at state functions, diplomatic trade talks and marching in the Montreal Pride Parade, where they smiled and waved at the crowds in matching button-down shirts and chino combos. While the Canadian tour was
Cross-border livestock theft occurs within the context of influences such as religion and wars and across rivers, mountains and oceans. Any attempt to discuss cross-border livestock theft is futile without conceptualizing the context of a border. A border can have an unprecedented number of meanings: the border between two farms; the boundary between police precincts; different policing counties; between states or provinces internally within a country; and between countries. No matter what determines country borders or boundaries between whom and whatever
This book responds to global tendencies toward increasingly restrictive border controls and populist movements targeting migrants for violence and exclusion. Informed by Marxist theory, it challenges standard narratives about immigration and problematises commonplace distinctions between ‘migrants’ and ‘workers’. Using Britain as a case study, the book examines how these categories have been constructed and mobilised within representations of a ‘migrant crisis’ and a ‘welfare crisis’ to facilitate capitalist exploitation. It uses ideas from grassroots activism to propose alternative understandings of the relationship between borders, migration and class that provide a basis for solidarity.
and thereby define what constitutes the territorial, functional, political and cultural borders and boundaries of EUrope. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, this was compounded, for example, by the Community’s Global Mediterranean Policy. The policy framework united non-European countries from the Maghreb and Mashreq, but also European countries such as Spain, Greece, Cyprus and Malta, the latter two of which continued to be treated as ‘Mediterranean partner countries’ until 2004, when they became EU member states and changed their status accordingly. The rejection of
The experiencing of migratory processes allowed active and passive migrants to engage with what I conceptualized as transformative border politics. To define it, a distinction must be first made between formal and informal border politics—the former referring to the formal mechanisms that establish geographical, political, and social boundaries from the top-down , and the latter referring to the informal processes and practices that sustain, reproduce, and challenge these from the bottom-up . With this contrast in mind, this research showed how active and
