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Filtering or Blocking Mobility? Inequalities, Marginalization, and Power Relations at Fortified Borders
Mobilität filtern oder blockieren? Ungleichheiten, Marginalisierung und Machtverhältnisse an fortifizierten Grenzen
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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 i... mehr
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 borderline. 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.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Algerien; Indien; Serbien; Mexiko; Migration; Marokko; Mobilität; Macht; Staatsgrenze; Kontrolle; USA; Ungarn; Ungleichheit; Pakistan
Klassifikation
Migration
internationale Beziehungen, Entwicklungspolitik
Freie Schlagwörter
fortified borders; mobility control; border control; cross-border relations; border fences; border walls; power relations; Deadlock
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2021
Seitenangabe
S. 49-77
Zeitschriftentitel
Historical Social Research, 46 (2021) 3
Heftthema
Borders as Places of Control: Fixing, Shifting, and Reinventing State Borders
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)