Borders are both a door and a bridge. Because they are operating at a critical juncture between security expectations and intense cross-border exchanges, they appear to be Janus-faced. To some, they are demarcating lines that call for extensive protection and a regime of strict closure. To others, they are a gateway to transnational opportunities and their opening should be carefully but liberally managed. The very same paradox affects the regions located alongside borders, that is the borderlands or frontier zones. Borderlands can be simultaneously depicted as epitomizing the growth of mutually beneficial transnational ties and as offering a privileged but bleak glimpse into the importation of international threats into domestic politics. Partly due to the discrepancy between their premises, borderlands studies and security studies have virtually no dialogue. Security studies remain focused on the discriminatory function of the border while borderlands studies document the social dynamics of cross border societies.
Against this backdrop, the ambition and originality of Securitized Borderlands lie in its aim to theoretically and empirically fill the gap between security studies—that remain focused on the discriminatory function of the border, and borderlands studies—that document the social dynamics of cross border societies.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Borderlands Studies.
Edited by:
Martin Deleixhe,
Magdalena Dembińska,
Julien Danero Iglesias
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 246mm,
Width: 174mm,
Weight: 360g
ISBN: 9780367691639
ISBN 10: 0367691639
Pages: 130
Publication Date: 25 September 2023
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
"Introduction: Securitized Borderlands Martin Deleixhe, Magdalena Dembińska and Julien Danero Iglesias 1. Biopolitical Sovereignty and Borderlands Martin Deleixhe 2. The ""Boomerang Effect"" of Kin-State Activism: Cross-border Ties and the Securitization of Kin Minorities Alexandra Liebich 3. Values and Power Conflicts in Framing Borders and Borderlands: The 2013 Reform of EU Schengen Governance Ramona Coman 4. Conflicting Imaginaries of the Border: The Construction of African Asylum Seekers in the Israeli Political Discourse Sharon Weinblum 5. The European Dispositif of Border Control in Malta. Migrants’ Experiences of a Securitized Borderland Léa Lemaire 6. Behind Closed Doors: Discourses and Strategies in the European Securitized Borderlands in Moldova, Serbia and Ukraine Julien Danero Iglesias 7. Securitizing a European Borderland: The Bordering Effects of Memory Politics in Bosnia and Herzegovina Sarah Sajn"
Martin Deleixhe is Senior Researcher in Political Theory at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France. Magdalena Dembińska is Associate Professor in Political Science at the Université de Montréal, QC, Canada. Her research focuses on majority-minority relations and on nation- and state-building in Central Europe and Eurasia. Julien Danero Iglesias is an independent researcher, with interest in nationalism and identity in Eastern Europe.
