Anthropology of Borders

Construction Sociale et Symbolique des Identites Territoriales en Milieu Urbain / Abdelmajid Arrif

by Arrif Abdelmajid

Journal of Mediterranean Studies, "Mediterranean Voices: Turning back to the Mediterranean", Vol. 15, No. 2: 2005

Contingent borders, ambiguous ethics: Migrants in (international) political theory

by james brassett

The article engages a critical analysis of liberal theory in the context of transnational migration. Normative... more The article engages a critical analysis of liberal theory in the context of transnational migration. Normative arguments provided by liberal-cosmopolitan and liberal-communitarian authors are contrasted. While sympathetic to such approaches, we argue that traditional liberal theory has attempted to downplay the contingency and resultant ambiguity of many of its moral precepts. Historically contingent borders underpin neat universal categories like ‘‘citizen’’ and ‘‘refugee,’’ which fail to reflect the diverse and contested experiences of migration. But such ambiguities need not undermine liberal approaches. Indeed, a proper engagement with the problematic and uncertain realities of migration can provide a spur to a more thoroughgoing ethical praxis. We draw on the philosophical pragmatism of Richard Rorty to outline an approach to migration that remains open to the contingent construction of terms like ‘‘migrant,’’ ‘‘refugee,’’ and ‘‘asylum-seeker.’’ By extending Rorty’s concept of sentimental education, we provide an imaginative and politically
challenging set of agendas for the ethics of migration.

Grenze

by Ulf Scharrer

Co-authored with Judith Miggelbrink, Jürgen Paul, Daniel Syrbe,
in: Annegret Nippa (ed.), Kleines ABC des Nomadismus, Hamburg 2011, p. 82-83

Grenze

by Ulf Scharrer

Co-authored with Judith Miggelbrink, Jürgen Paul, Daniel Syrbe,
in: Annegret Nippa (ed.), Kleines ABC des Nomadismus, Hamburg 2011, p. 82-83

Amante, M. F. Cultura de fronteira: a assimetria sustentada na raia luso-espanhola”, Actas do VIII Congresso de Cultura Europea, Pamplona, Editorial Aranzadi,2009: 515-524.

by Maria De Fátima Amante

The Value of Immigrant Life

by Jonathan Xavier Inda

The road: An ethnography of the Albanian-Greek cross-border motorway. In American Ethnologist vol 37

by Dimitris Dalakoglou

This article is an ethnographic study of a 29-kilometer stretch of cross-border highway located in South Albania and... more This article is an ethnographic study of a 29-kilometer stretch of cross-border highway located in South Albania and linking the city of Gjirokaster with the main checkpoint on the Albanian–Greek border. The road, its politics, and its poetics
constitute an ideal point of entry for an anthropological analysis of contemporary South Albania. The physical and social construction, uses, and perceptions of this road uniquely encapsulate three phenomena that dominate social life in postsocialist South Albania: the transition to a market economy, new nationalisms, and massive emigration (mainly to Greece). Taking this cross-border road section as my main ethnographic
point of reference, I suggest the fruitfulness of further discussion of the relationship between roads, narratives, and anthropology.

[roads, globalization, transnationalism, development, postsocialism, materiality, Albania]

Singapore's Orang Seletar, Orang Kallang, and Orang Selat: The Last Settlements

by Mariam Ali

Going Through Border Places: Security Practices and Local Perceptions of Insecurity as Filtration at the Kenya-Uganda Boundary

by William Allen

Peer-reviewed and published with the Centre for International Borders Research Working Paper Series at Queens University Belfast (Number 24).

Security provision figures prominently at international boundaries. Although previous studies in African border... more Security provision figures prominently at international boundaries. Although previous studies in African border contexts demonstrate how such practices are complicated by factors including states’ diminished capacity or willingness to uniformly enforce official policies, they do not fully link these observations to the materiality of border towns or the experiences of border- crossers. Furthermore, there is an imperative within border studies to move beyond descriptive analysis and conceptualise borders as dynamic processes that are contingently expressed through everyday activities. Drawing upon qualitative fieldwork in two border towns at the Kenya-Uganda boundary, and theoretically informed by work in critical geography, this paper makes three arguments: (1) everyday enactment of border security is reshaped by locally held perceptions and expectations of border town life; (2) the security of the physical border is implicated within more general concerns for safety; and (3) the geographic concept of ‘place’ shows how analysis of security ‘filters’ as they actually unfold through contingent ‘moments’ captures the significance of these two spheres for the border region.

AN OPEN LETTER TO CAMERON COUNTY COMMISSION

by MARGO TAMEZ

Published in The Crit Legal Studies Journal, Vol. 2, Issue 1, Winter 2009

SPACE, POSITION AND IMPERIALISM IN SOUTH TEXAS

by MARGO TAMEZ

In, Chicana/Latina Studies, 7:2, Spring 2008

'Our Way of Life is Our Resistance': Indigenous Women and Anti-Imperialist Challeges to Militarization along the U.S.-Mexico Border Wall

by MARGO TAMEZ

Restoring Lipan Apache Womens Laws, Lands, and Strength in El Calaboz Rancheria at the Texas-Mexico Border

by MARGO TAMEZ

Islam, the Public Sphere and Social Construction of Baweanese Workers' Identity

by Mariam Ali

The cross with four pillars as the centre of religious gahtering: discussing micro regional identity

by Aleksandra Djurić-Milovanović

Published in Ethnologia Balkanica 2007, 11/1

Estrategias e identidades cambiantes en las tierras fronterizas del norte de Etiopía: percepciones del grupo fronterizo de los Irob, Nova Africa, 27, Enero 2012. Barcelona, CEA.

by Alexandra Magnolia Dias

Centre D'Estudis Africains Interculturals . Barcelona. Spain.

The value of bodies: Deception, helping and profiteering in human trafficking along the Thai-Lao border

by Sverre Molland

Border Prophylaxis: Technology, Illegality, and the Government of Immigration

by Jonathan Xavier Inda

Retos culturales de México frente a la globalización

by Abeyamí Ortega

Coord: Arizpe, Lourdes
Colección: Las Ciencias Sociales. Segunda Década
Series: Conocer para Decidir
Área: Globalización
Materia: Globalización cultural Mexicanos en los Estados Unidos Mujeres-Empleo Indígenas – cultura Cultura popular – México Política cultural – México
Coeditor(es): H. Cámara de Diputados, LIX Legislatura.
ISBN: 970-701-879-8
NO. de catálogo: 042615-01
Edición: octubre de 2006

Autores: Néstor García Canclini, Florence Toussaint, Abeyami Ortega Domínguez, Edith Pérez Flores, Cristina Amescua,  Ma. Eugenia Ramírez Parra, Héctor Tejera Gaona, Astrid Juárez Tapia, María Ana Portal, Raúl Béjar, Héctor Rosales, Mercedes Pedrero Nieto, Iris Meza Bernal, Cristina Oehmichen, Adriana González Mateos, Maya Lorena Pérez ruiz, Luis Manuel Arias Reyes, Marcos Sandoval Cruz, Blanca González Rosas, Esther Hernández Palacios, Gilberto Gutiérrez, Ishtar Cardona, Josefa Guzmán Bulnes, Tiosha Bojórquez Chapela, Cristina Amescua, Enrique Nalda, Ana Rosas Mantecón, Rafael Segovia, Eduardo Nivón Bolán, Hiram Villalobos Audifred, Arturo I. Saucedo González, Carlos J. Villaseñor Anaya.

Frente a la globalización levantamos la mirada hacia fuera de las fronteras de México para captar y analizar los... more Frente a la globalización levantamos la mirada hacia fuera de las fronteras de México para captar y analizar los nuevos desafíos que enfrentamos en esta era global. Lo que vemos, a través de los estudios incluidos en este libro, es que hay que cambiar la percepción común sobre lo que pasa en México con la globalización cultural. Ni las relaciones culturales de los mexicanos con procesos globales son nuevas, ni su impacto es siempre negativo. Al contrario, dinamiza porque presenta nuevos retos.

Antropología de las fronteras. Alteridad, historia e identidad más allá de la línea.

by Abeyamí Ortega

Materia: Frontera – México – Estados Unidos - México Etnicidad Globalización cultural Migración
Coeditor(es): El Colegio de la Frontera Norte.
ISBN: 978-970-701-939-3
NO. de catálogo: 133055-01
Edición: junio de 2007
Encuadernación: rústica
Páginas: 384 pp.
Medidas: 17 X 23 cm
Peso: 500 g.
Textos: Introducción por Miguel Olmos Aguilera. Textos por Francisco de la Peña Martínez, Abeyami Ortega Domínguez, Eugeni Porras Carrillo, Rafael Pérez-Taylor, María Eugenia Jurado Barranco, Miguel Olmos Aguilera, Adriana Cruz Manjares, Ana Bella Pérez Castro, Tiosha Borjórquez Chapela, Guillermo Alonso Meneses, Jesús Aguilar Nery, Guillermina Yankelevich, Lawrence Douglas Taylor Hansen, Lucila del Carmen León Velazco, Mario Alberto Magaña Mancillas, Alejandro Aguilar Zéleny, Leticia Bibiana Santiago Guerrero, Everardo Garduño y Neyra Patricia Alvarado Solís.

El propósito de esta obra es presentar trabajos que interpretan la realidad cultural e histórica de la relación entre... more El propósito de esta obra es presentar trabajos que interpretan la realidad cultural e histórica de la relación entre México y Estados Unidos. Las sociedades que se encuentran en la frontera son analizadas para obtener información sobre la percepción de sus individuos, descubriendo así el papel de la antropología en la frontera. El libro presenta los resultados de las nuevas investigaciones teóricas y empíricas desde el punto de vista antropológico, etiológico e histórico, las cuales arrojan información suficiente para medir algunos de los fenómenos culturales así como aspectos de unidad y diversidad cultural.