Racism and Borders: Representation, Repression, Resistance - Softcover

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In the context of corporate globalization and neo-liberal governance, when regimes of racial profiling, surveillance and tightened border controls are growing in significance, this collection provides an important multi-national perspective on an issue of great and growing concern.

Raising significant questions about the movement and regulation of people within globalization, the work examines the issue from a transborder perspective, with comparisons, connections and intersections of policy and practice.

The Editor's introduction examines the historical and recent contexts of racial profiling and resistance to profiling, especially since 9/11 and the war on terror. Chapters contributed by scholars from a diversity of backgrounds, perspectives and institutions explore the problem of “the Other,” the power and means of defining “territory,” gender, the treatment of indigenous peoples, and the active and passive ways in which those in the dominant group step over, obliterate, abuse and turn a blind eye to all other groups. In contrast, Graciela Susana Boruszko discusses the concept of “hospitality” — calling upon each of us to “make room for the other” and asserting that “divergent perspectives do not call for reconciliation but to remain standing at ease, side by side, while we disagree on that issue.”

The book makes an important contribution to broader public discussions about profiling as well as offering a good venue for highlighting some of the diverse work being done on this issue, across borders, by global grassroots movements that organize to oppose racial profiling.

It can serve as a primary or supplementary text for university courses in Criminology, Sociology, Politics, Geography, Cultural Studies and International Affairs; beyond academia, it provides a useful resource for civil liberties and human rights groups, advocacy movements and community organizations. It will be particularly valuable for community groups supporting immigrants and refugees as well as those representing members of racialized non-migrant communities in diverse contexts, and for immigrant and refugee defense groups.

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