Border Frictions

Gender, Generation and Technology on the Frontline
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-13641-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 218 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Criminal Justice, Borders and Citizenship

How did Canadian border officers come to think of themselves as a "police of the border"? This book tells the story of the shift to law enforcement in Canadian border control. From the 1990s onward, it traces the transformation of a customs organization into a border-policing agency.

Border Frictions investigates how considerable political efforts and state resources have made bordering a matter of security and trade facilitation best managed with surveillance technologies. Based on interviews with border officers, ethnographic work carried out in the vicinity of land border ports of entry and policy analysis, this book illuminates features seldom reviewed by critical border scholars. These include the fraught circulation of data, the role of unions in shaping the border policy agenda, the significance of professional socialization in the making of distinct generations of security workers and evidence of the masculinization of bordering. In a time when surveillance technologies track the mobilities of goods and people and push their control beyond and inside geopolitical borderlines, Côté-Boucher unpacks how we came to accept the idea that it is vital to deploy coercive bordering tactics at the land border.

Written in a clear and engaging style, this book will appeal to students and scholars in criminology, sociology, social theory, politics, and geography and appeal to those interested in learning about the everyday reality of policing the border.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Côté-Boucher, Karine

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Rechtswissenschaften Wirtschaftsrecht Kapitalmarkt- und Wertpapierrecht
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht Staatsangehörigkeitsrecht
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1.Introduction; Interlude: the slipper section; 2.Changing customs: from taxation to secure trade; 3.Border interrupted: technologies and the fraught circulation of data in bordering; 4.Towards a police of the border: the virtualization of borderwork and a disrupted sense of self; 5.Gendered border politics: "manning" the frontline, getting the gun; 6.Becoming a border enforcer: a changing apprenticeship; 7.Dobermans vs. hush puppies: generational frictions in ports of entry; 8.Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Karine Côté-Boucher is Associate Professor at the Université de Montréal School of Criminology.