Borders, Risks, Exclusions

Borders, Risks, Exclusions

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In this paper the border is evaluated as a fold of power relations in which sovereign capacity and competence is marshaled in the furtherance of illiberal practices. Drawing from interview data of officials in various agencies engaged in the US-Canada and particularly the Windsor-Detroit corridor,...

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Main Author: Benjamin Muller
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Brock University 2009-10-01
Series:Studies in Social Justice
Subjects:
security
borders
states
policy
Online Access:http://brock.scholarsportal.info/journals/index.php/SSJ/article/view/1024
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spelling doaj-96ce8a5f4c2c457496e899585f940a1f2020-11-24T21:44:28ZengBrock UniversityStudies in Social Justice1911-47882009-10-013167781007Borders, Risks, ExclusionsBenjamin Muller0University of Western OntarioIn this paper the border is evaluated as a fold of power relations in which sovereign capacity and competence is marshaled in the furtherance of illiberal practices. Drawing from interview data of officials in various agencies engaged in the US-Canada and particularly the Windsor-Detroit corridor, the argument is made that the border is a site for both negative and positive power, for insertion and subtraction, and that surveillance and compliance regimes are ‘run’ not so much in the furtherance of a precautionary or preemptive end-state, but as intermediate values that are sufficiently malleable by an invigorated sovereign, expressed in the residue of discretion in and between the many border agencies.http://brock.scholarsportal.info/journals/index.php/SSJ/article/view/1024securitybordersstatespolicy
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Borders, Risks, Exclusions
Studies in Social Justice
security
borders
states
policy
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title Borders, Risks, Exclusions
title_short Borders, Risks, Exclusions
title_full Borders, Risks, Exclusions
title_fullStr Borders, Risks, Exclusions
title_full_unstemmed Borders, Risks, Exclusions
title_sort borders, risks, exclusions
publisher Brock University
series Studies in Social Justice
issn 1911-4788
publishDate 2009-10-01
description In this paper the border is evaluated as a fold of power relations in which sovereign capacity and competence is marshaled in the furtherance of illiberal practices. Drawing from interview data of officials in various agencies engaged in the US-Canada and particularly the Windsor-Detroit corridor, the argument is made that the border is a site for both negative and positive power, for insertion and subtraction, and that surveillance and compliance regimes are ‘run’ not so much in the furtherance of a precautionary or preemptive end-state, but as intermediate values that are sufficiently malleable by an invigorated sovereign, expressed in the residue of discretion in and between the many border agencies.
topic security
borders
states
policy
url http://brock.scholarsportal.info/journals/index.php/SSJ/article/view/1024
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