Modern bordering agency
Looking beyond single border agents
A key figure is brought to the fore by the shift from conceptualising borders as static boundaries to examining the ongoing and dynamic processes of bordering that produce the inside and outside of states. This is the border agent: the person or entity that performs the bordering process and is responsible for enacting the inside and outside of a state’s boundary. Research on borders has commonly positioned the human border guard – the actor who decides whether someone can enter a country – as a key border agent (Salter, 2008; Van der Woude, 2019). And while recent theorisations regarding bordering in everyday and internal state settings continue to privilege human border agents, ...
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