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Title

Borderlands : comparing border security in North America and Europe / edited by Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly.

Publication

Ottawa : University of Ottawa Press, c2007.

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Additional Authors

Brunet-Jailly, Emmanuel, 1961-

Description

xii, 392 p. : ill., maps, port.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Border security has been high on public-policy agendas in Europe and North America since the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York City and on the headquarters of the American military in Washington DC. Governments are now confronted with managing secure borders, a policy objective that in this era of increased free trade and globalization must compete with intense cross-border flows of people and goods. Border-security policies must enable security personnel to identify, or filter out, dangerous individuals and substances from among the millions of travelers and tons of goods that cross borders daily, particularly in large cross-border urban regions. This book addresses this gap between security needs and an understanding of borders and borderlands. Specifically, the chapters in this volume ask policy-makers to recognize that two fundamental elements define borders and borderlands: first, human activities (the agency and agent power of individual ties and forces spanning a border), and second, the broader social processes that frame individual action, such as market forces, government activities (law, regulations, and policies), and the regional culture and politics of a borderland."--Pub. desc

Series Statement

Governance series ; [10]

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• Governance series [10].

Subject

• Boundaries
• Border security > North America
• Border security > Europe
• National security > North America
• National security > Europe
• Globalization
• Frontières
• Sécurité frontalière > Amérique du Nord
• Sécurité frontalière > Europe
• Sécurité nationale > Amérique du Nord
• Sécurité nationale > Europe
• Mondialisation
• North America > Boundaries
• Europe > Boundaries

Note

• Series numbering from publisher's list in vol. 16.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The maritime borders of Europe: upstream migratory controls -- Whose security? Dilemmas of US border security in the Arizona-Sonora borderlands -- Border acrobatics between the European Union and Africa: the management of sealed-off permeability on the borders of Ceuta and Melilla -- Fayuca Hormiga: the cross-border trade of used clothing between the United States and Mexico -- A new Northern security agenda -- From Iron curtain to paper wall: the influence of border regimes on local and regional economies -- the life, death, and resurrection of Bazaars in the Łódź region -- The economic cost of border security: the case of the Texas-Mexico border and the US VISIT program -- The costs of homeland security -- Managing US-Mexico transborder cooperation on local security issues and the Canadian relationship -- Anti-terrorism in North America: is there convergence or divergence in Canadian and US legislative responses to 9/11 and the US-Canada border? -- The Southern border of Mexico in the age of globalization -- Conclusion: borders, borderlands, and security: European and North American lessons and public policy suggestions.

ISBN

• 9780776606514
• 0776606514

OCLC

• 137329716
• SCSB-10810584

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library