Globalization and Borders: Death at the Global Frontier [Paperback]

This book analyzes the political and material conditions driving contemporary border control policies and discusses the processes that mediate popular and official understandings of border-related fatalities.List of Tables, Figures and Images Acknowledgements List of Acronyms Introduction: Globalization and Borders PART I: Border Autopsy: Examining Contemporary Borders Charting the Global Frontier Counting and Discounting Border Deaths Accounting for Deaths at the Border PART II: Border Inquest: Misadventure or Death by Policy? Structural Violence Suspicious Deaths Suicide and Self-harm PART III: From Finding Truth to Preventing Border Harm The Ambiguous Architecture of Risk Conclusion: Preventing Death by Sovereignty Notes Bibliography Index

Leanne Weber and Sharon Pickering in Globalization and Borders: Death at the Global Frontier draw attention to this urgent concern and make a remarkable contribution to the study of migration at the beginning of the twenty-first century. & Globalization and Borders is essential reading for all those who are concerned with the politics of migration. Challenging the hegemonic discourse of border control, it sheds new light on the multifaceted phenomenon of border crossing & . (Paolo Cossarini, The European Legacy, Vol. 21 (4), February, 2016)

Globalization and Borders: Death at the Global Frontier is a must-read for anyone interested in rethinking the problem

of policing migration beyond traditional approaches to migration, border controls and sovereignty. -Punishment and Society

This is an ambitious book that brings attention to an understudied phenomenon, and attempts to develop a criminological explanation for deaths at the border. It pushes the emerging fields of the criminology of mobility and

border criminologies (Aas and Bosworth, 2013) forward since it develops theoretical and empirical links between migration and crime. But, rather than ló,