Globalization and Borders: Death at the Global Frontier

by Sharon Pickering and Leanne Weber

Book Overview

Winner of the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Christine M Alder Book Prize 2013 Controlling border crossing has become an urgent concern under conditions of globalization, leading Western governments to introduce increasingly coercive control measures. Far from eradicating spontaneous border crossing, this defensive geography has fuelled illicit people-smuggling markets, and forced asylum seekers and illegalized travellers into increasingly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113745315X
• ISBN13: 9781137453150
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"