The Shifting Border: Legal Cartographies of Migration and Mobility: Ayelet Shachar in Dialogue

by Ayelet Shachar

Book Overview

The border is one of the most urgent issues of our times. We tend to think of a border as a static line, but recent bordering techniques have broken away from the map, as governments have developed legal tools to limit the rights of migrants before and after they enter a country's territory. The consequent detachment of state power from any fixed geographical marker has created a new paradigm: the shifting border, an adjustable legal construct untethered...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526145316
• ISBN13: 9781526145314
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.4" x 8.6"