Introduction: Mobilities and Enclosures at Borders

Cunningham, Hilary; Heyman, Josiah McC.

doi:10.1080/10702890490493509

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“…Recent studies have brought to the fore at least three main themes on which further interrogation and elaboration can be based. The first important theme concerns the changing functions of borders in the current era of globalization (Heyman, 1991; 1994; Wilson and Donnan, 1998; Thuen, 1999; Cunningham and Heyman, 2004; Chen, 2005). In response to the ongoing debate over territoriality and the effectiveness of borders in the alleged ‘borderless world’, a number of studies have examined closely the complex, multifaceted and often paradoxical functions of territorial borders.…”

Section: Borders and Population Mobility In A Globalizing Worldmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Flexible Sojourning in the Era of Globalization: Cross‐border Population Mobility in the Hong Kong–Guangdong Border Region

Lin

Tse

2005

Int J Urban Regional Res

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This study of cross‐border population mobility in the Hong Kong–Guangdong region adopts a humanistic and disaggregate approach to analyzing how ordinary and sometimes underrepresented people, such as housewives, workers, low‐income households and elderly retirees, have engaged in border‐crossing as a personal strategy to actively negotiate with the reproduction of regional asymmetry in the era of uneven globalization. Flexible sojourning across the border has long been pursued by the local population in this region as a means of survival during natural catastrophes, economic downturns, wars and political turmoil. Cross‐border population mobility has acquired a new momentum in recent years subsequent to the uneven economic and social changes on the two sides of the border. The border‐crossers are, seemingly, a uniform group of people whose travel behavior does not deviate from the expectation of conventional wisdom. However, a closer analysis reveals significant differences among the border‐crossers. Four main types of border‐crossers are identified: shoppers, workers, homebuyers and elderly retirees. Each type demonstrates distinct patterns of border‐crossing and makes the trip out of different considerations. Border‐crossing has different meanings to people of different social identities. Cross‐border mobility can be and has been used by different kinds of people in different ways as a personal strategy to take on the challenges of structural changes at home and across the border. The article calls for an extension of border studies beyond the existing emphasis on border functioning, nation‐states and regional development toward examining more seriously and carefully the ordinary people who are involved in border‐crossing as a practice of their everyday life. D’approche humaniste et décomposée, cette étude sur la mobilité transfrontalière des populations dans la région de Hong‐Kong et de Guangdong analyse comment des populations ordinaires, et parfois sous‐représentées (femmes au foyer, ouvriers, ménages à faible revenu et retraités âgés, par exemple), ont entrepris de passer la frontière comme stratégie personnelle d’adaptation active à la reproduction de l’asymétrie régionale parallèlement à une mondialisation inégale. La population locale pratique des séjours transfrontaliers souples depuis longtemps, pour sa survie en cas de catastrophes naturelles, revers économiques, guerres et agitation politique. La mobilité transfrontalière s’est accélérée récemment après les évolutions économiques et sociales inégales des deux côtés de la frontière. Les transfrontaliers forment, parait‐il, un groupe uniforme de personnes dont le comportement de voyageur respecte les attentes de la prudence classique. Pourtant, une analyse plus poussée révèle d’importantes différences entre eux. Quatre grands types de transfrontaliers sont identifiés: consommateurs, travailleurs, acquéreurs de logement et retraités âgés. Chaque type suit un modèle transfrontalier distinct et fait le déplacement pour des motifs différents. La significati...

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Section: Borders and Population Mobility In A Globalizing Worldmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Their infiltration shapes, and is shaped by, regional difference, inequality and asymmetry. In this perspective, nations in the globalizing world are not simply ‘unbounded’, but ‘rebounded’ so that mobilities and enclosures co‐exist (Cunningham and Heyman, 2004).…”

Section: Borders and Population Mobility In A Globalizing Worldmentioning

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Flexible Sojourning in the Era of Globalization: Cross‐border Population Mobility in the Hong Kong–Guangdong Border Region

Lin

Tse

2005

Int J Urban Regional Res

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“…Recognizing the importance of engaging with new patterns of spatial and temporal movement in the context of multiple scales, these border scholars have attempted to theorize globalization in terms of both flows and blockades, or as Joe Heyman and I have articulated it, in terms of ''mobilities and enclosures''-a rubric designed to admit a broad range of theoretical perspectives on sovereignty, territory, and state-making in conditions of globalization (Cunningham and Heyman 2004). Admittedly, in much of this work there is often a preferential option or theoretical partiality for the enclosure effects of the spectrum and in this, these writers indeed have an affinity with the activists and activist scholars-discussed here.…”

Section: Fences Fogs and Foucaultmentioning

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Mobilities and enclosures after Seattle: politicizing borders in a “Borderless” world

Cunningham

2009

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This paper explores the complex and often contradictory ways in which state borders, and by extension territorial sovereignty, have become repoliticized over the past decade. In the 1990s, it was commonplace to describe globalization as auguring a new post-Westphalian world, one in which the nation-state and territorial forms of state sovereignty were disappearing. Both critics of and advocates for globalization made claims to a new ''borderless world'' and ''de-territorialization''-though from very different political vantage points. Yet territorial borders did not become uniformly less salient in the new world orders that emerged under neoliberalism, and in many cases, the securitization of international borders became more acute. Moreover, particularly post 9-11, states often deepened enforcement measures at their international boundary lines and ''border regimes'' have become critical to the expanding securitization of the nation-state and the capital interest of elites. Antiborder activists circa Seattle and beyond have played a central role in critiquing, politicizing, and drawing our attention to the border as a site of expanding state power, the logics of capital and the kinds of enclosures that continue to structure deep inequalities across the globe.

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“…Nonetheless, most states exercise restraint and selectivity in addressing irregular labor migration, and their repertoire of responses varies according to socioeconomic and political realities (Al1mad 2008). In some cases it may suit the interests of both states and employers to have access to a large irregular workforce (Cunningham and Heyman 2004;Ford 2006a). In others, strict regulation of all migration flows is intimately tied to public debates about "law and order" and "border security" (Crinis 2005;Grewcock 2007).…”

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confidence: 99%