The Shifting Border: Legal Cartographies of Migration and Mobility: Ayelet Shachar in Dialogue (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781526145314)

The border is one of the most urgent issues of our times. We tend to think of a border as a static line, but recent bordering techniques have broken away from the map, as governments have developed legal tools to limit the rights of migrants before and after they enter a country's territory. The consequent detachment of state power from any fixed geographical marker has created a new paradigm: the shifting border, an adjustable legal construct untethered in space. This transformation upsets our assumptions about waning sovereignty, while also revealing the limits of the populist push toward border-fortification. At the same time, it presents a tremendous opportunity to rethink states' responsibilities to migrants. This book proposes a new, functional approach to human mobility and access to membership in a world where borders, like people, have the capacity to move.

Author: Ayelet Shachar
ISBN-10: 1526145316
ISBN-13: 9781526145314
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/28/2020
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 8.58h x 5.43w x 1.26d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2021