Synopses & Reviews
Even as economic and military walls have come down in the post-Cold War era, states have rapidly built new barriers to prevent a perceived invasion of 'undesirables.' Nowhere is this more dramatically evident than along the geographic fault lines dividing rich from poor countries: especially the southern border of the United States, and the southern and eastern borders of the European Union. This volume examines the practice, politics, and consequences of building these new walls in North America and Europe. At the same time, it challenges dominant accounts of globalization, in which state borders will be irrelevant to the human experience.
About the Author
\Peter Andreas is assistant professor of political science at Reed College. He was formerly an academy scholar at Harvard University. Timothy Snyder is an academy scholar at Harvard University.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: The Wall after the Wall / Peter Andreas -- 2. The Transformation of Border Controls: A European Precedent? / Malcolm Anderson -- 3. States and the Regulation of Migration in the Twentieth-Century North Atlantic World / John Torpey -- 4. Comparative Perspectives on Border Control: Away from the Border and Outside the State / Gallya Lahav and Virginie Guiraudon -- 5. The Political Costs of State Power: U.S. Border Control in South Florida / Christopher Mitchell -- 6. The Remaking of the California-Mexico Boundary in the Age of NAFTA / Joseph Nevins -- 7. The Logic and Contradictions of Intensified Border Enforcement in Texas / David Spener -- 8. U.S. Border Controls: A Mexican Perspective / Gustavo Mohar and Marla-Elena Alcaraz -- 9. Eastern Europe as Gatekeeper: The Immigration and Asylum Policies of an Enlarging European Union / Milada Anna Vachudova --