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Mobilität filtern oder blockieren? Ungleichheiten, Marginalisierung und Machtverhältnisse an fortifizierten Grenzen
- Source :
- Historical Social Research, Borders as Places of Control: Fixing, Shifting, and Reinventing State Borders
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, 2021.
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Abstract
- This paper investigates four fortified borders: those between Hungary and Serbia, the USA and Mexico, Algeria and Morocco, and Pakistan and India. Starting from current border research, it asks how fortified borders control mobility, who is affected by fortifications, and how. Based on qualitative interviews, the paper finds that although all four borders are similarly fortified, they control mobility in different ways; while the Hungarian and the US border fences filter mobility, the two other borders instead block all forms of circulation. The paper conceptualizes these different types as filter borders and deadlock borders. It then examines their effects and analyzes not only how they are related to inequalities and power relations, but also how they can be used as resources. The filter borders reinforce the global gap in mobility rights by blocking migrants, whereas the deadlock borders also lead to increasing inequality within a country – between the capital and the border population – by cutting economic, social, and familial ties across the border line. The two border types also indicate different relations between neighboring states; filter borders are related to a clear gap in wealth and power, with one state exploiting the fortification to its advantage. By contrast, at the deadlock borders, the power balance is more ambiguous and contested.<br />Historical Social Research Vol. 46, No. 3 (2021): Special Issue: Borders as Places of Control. Fixing, Shifting, and Reinventing State Borders. Starting Point and Frequency: Year: 1979, Issues per volume: 4, Volumes per year: 1
- Subjects :
- Serbien
inequality
national border
mobility control
Ungleichheit
Marokko
India
fortified borders
border control
cross-border relations
border fences
border walls
power relations
Deadlock
Macht
Mobilität
United States of America
Internationale Beziehungen
migration
power
Algerien
Staatsgrenze
Mexiko
Pakistan
Indien
Migration, Sociology of Migration
Social sciences, sociology, anthropology
Mexico
USA
Hungary
Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie
Kontrolle
International Relations, International Politics, Foreign Affairs, Development Policy
mobility
deadlock
Morocco
Algeria
ddc:300
Ungarn
International relations
internationale Beziehungen, Entwicklungspolitik
control
Serbia
ddc:327
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Historical Social Research, Borders as Places of Control: Fixing, Shifting, and Reinventing State Borders
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....4fe59ccc56792b442e76f9f280a9adbe
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.46.2021.3.49-77