1st Edition

Border Security Shores of Politics, Horizons of Justice

By Peter Chambers Copyright 2018
312 Pages
by Routledge

312 Pages
by Routledge

312 Pages
by Routledge

What kind of a world is one in which border security is understood as necessary? How is this transforming the shores of politics? And why does this seem to preclude a horizon of political justice for those affected? Border Security responds to these questions through an interdisciplinary exploration of border security, politics and justice. Drawing empirically on the now notorious case of... Read more

Introducing border security’s world

PART I - The emergence of border security in Australia

1 Girt by sea: transformations of sovereignty and border security

2 "We will decide who comes here": sending the message of border security

PART II - Border security’s international lineages and global alignments

3 You will never see the shores of Australia: offshore’s form, offshoring detention for border security

4 Ships in the night: border security in the normative order of global logistics

PART III - Beyond border security’s shores and horizons

5 Boundless planes to share: border security and the living heart of the global city

Conclusion: resistance against border security’s world, horizons of justice beyond it

Book and journal bibliography

Newspapers, websites and online sources bibliography

Biography

Peter Chambers lectures in criminology at Deakin University, Melbourne.