Travellers vs borders
Tensions and conflict at the border
Borders are political to their core. A border is created at the same time as a political community, and it defines the boundary between that community and its outsiders. Borders are the primary political institution because they establish the appropriate space of positive politics, as well as its externality. And this function is achieved through the establishment of a relationship between a sovereign and a people. A relationship that produces a type of person who exists within the political community and a type of person who exists outside of it. This is, for the most part, the thing that I have been examining in this book, the co-creation of the border, the political community, ...
Get Digital Mobilities and Smart Borders now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.
