Handbook on Human Security, Borders and Migration

Drawing on the concept of the 'politics of compassion', this Handbook interrogates the political, geopolitical, social and anthropological processes which produce and govern borders and give rise to contemporary border violence.Chapters map different aspects of structural violence and mobilities in some of the world's most contentious border zones, highlighting the forms and practices that connect with labour exploitation, legal exclusion and a severe absence of human rights. International interdisciplinary contributors, including renowned sociologist Saskia Sassen, draw attention to the forms and spaces of resistance available to migrants and activists, contemplating how advocates attempt to provide protection and human security to those subjected to border violence. Offering empirical analyses of critical border spaces, the book covers extensively the US-Mexico border region and border zones around the Mediterranean. Border issues in South, Central and North America, Eastern Europe, Northern Europe, the Middle East, Central Africa and East and Central Asia are also discussed. The Handbook thus provides a truly transnational approach to borders and migration, demonstrating the dynamic but asymmetric relationship between the social structure of border enforcement and the human agency of migrants and global activists. Combining theoretical insights into structural violence and human rights with key case studies of border zones, this comprehensive Handbook is crucial reading for scholars and researchers of social and political science investigating human migration, the humanitarian, border control and human rights. Its practical insights will also benefit policy-makers involved in borders and migration, as well as advocates and NGOs working with migrants and refugees to create secure environments.

Table of Contents:
Contents: Introduction to the Handbook on Human Security, Borders and Migration 1 Natalia Ribas-Mateos and Tim Dunn PART I THE ICONIC US–MEXICO BORDER REGION 1 The militarization of the US–Mexico border in the twenty-first century and implications for human rights 32 Timothy J. Dunn 2 The U.S.–Mexico border since 2014: overt migration contention and normalized violence 51 Josiah Heyman 3 The mantling and dismantling of a tent city at the U.S.–Mexico border 68 Cynthia L. Bejarano and Ma. Eugenia Hernández Sánchez 4 Undo/redo the violent wall: border-crossing practices and multi-territoriality 87 Marlene Solís PART II ON THE WAY TO THE US 5 The predatory character of today’s economies: a focus on borders and migrations 99 Saskia Sassen 6 New security: threat landscape and the emerging market for force 108 Blanca Camps-Febrer and John Andrew Carter, Jr. 7 An anti-Latin@ policing machine: enforcing the U.S./Mexico border along the Great Lakes and the 49th Parallel 122 Geoff Boyce and Todd Miller 8 The invisible dimension of institutional violence and the political construction of impunity: necropopulism and the averted medicolegal gaze 134 Bilgesu Sümer 9 ‘Migrant trash’ or humanitarian responsibility? Central American government state responses to deported nationals 145 Isabel Rosales Sandoval 10 Biopolitical governmentality at Chile’s northern border (Arica–Tacna) 162 Luis Iturra Valenzuela PART III CHALLENGING MEDITERRANEAN BORDERS 11 Major changes in “migrations and borders” after the “revolution” of globalized liberalism 174 Salvatore Palidda 12 Documenting and denouncing violence at eastern European borders: the socio-legal relevance of refugee voices through the production of audio-visual material 186 Chiara Denaro 13 Transnational humanitarianism: blurring the boundaries of the Mediterranean in Libya 207 Natalia Ribas-Mateos 14 Migration policies at the Spanish border in Southern Europe: between ‘welfare chauvinism’, hate discourse and policies of compassion 222 Belén Fernández-Suárez 15 The wall and the tunnels: crossings and separation at the border between Egypt, Israel and the Gaza Strip 236 Lorenzo Navone 16 Spanish–Algerian border relations: tensions between bilateral policies and population mobilities 250 María-Jesús Cabezón-Fernández, Juan-David Sempere-Souvannavong and Arslan Mazouni 17 Neighbour or stranger? Bordering practices in a small Catalan town 266 Martin Lundsteen PART IV REGIONS, PARTITIONS, AND EDGES 18 Border regions, migrations and the proliferation of violent expulsions 282 Saskia Sassen 19 Borders and violence in Burundi: regional responses, global responsibilities 298 Niamh Gaynor 20 Blood, smoke and cocaine? Reflections on the governance of the Amazonian border in contemporary Brazil 310 José Miguel Nieto Olivar, Flávia Melo and Marco Tobón 21 The borders of Macau in a geohistorical perspective: political dispute, (non)definition of limits and migratory phenomena in an original border-city 326 Alfredo Gomes Dias and Jorge Macaísta Malheiros 22 The Crimean borderscape: a changing landscape of political compassion and care 345 Greta Lynn Uehling 23 The Irish border as sign and source of British–Irish tensions 355 Katy Hayward, Peter Leary and Milena Komarova PART V VIOLENCE AND CONTAINMENT: APPROACHES TO YOUTH AND GENDER 24 African women on the road to Europe: violence and resilience in border zones 371 Kristin Kastner 25 Impact of the permanent crisis in the Central African Republic on Cameroonian return migrants 382 Henri Yambene Bomono 26 From Afghanistan border to Iranian cities: the case of migrant children in Tehran 397 Pooya Alaedini and Ameneh Mirzaei 27 Adolescent mobilities and border regimes in the western Mediterranean 410 Mercedes G. Jiménez Afterword: a brief mapping on borders 419 Marcos Correia Index

About the Author :
Edited by Natalia Ribas-Mateos, Senior Researcher, TRANSMENA (Research Group), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Spain and at MESOPOLHIS (Aix-en-Provence, Marseille), France and Timothy J. Dunn, Department of Sociology, Salisbury University, US

Review :
’Human security is one of the most pressing issues of our time. As the world becomes more connected through globalization, barriers and borders simultaneously stifle and oppress world migrants. This Handbook should be required reading for understanding this problematic, in the U.S, Mexico, Europe and beyond, using a social science lens.’