Rethinking Authority in China’s Border Regime

Plümmer, Franziska

doi:10.1515/9789048553815

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“…Border residency is a locally valid migration scheme that allows the local administration to identify and monitor border residents from both sides of the border, because they are eligible for preferential treatment at border crossings or for local working permits. 52 To know their local constituents, cadres monitor local demographics and communicate their observations to local public security bureaus which are in charge of issuing marriage and migration documents. 53 In addition, local cadres are required to establish relations with local entrepreneurs.…”

Section: Local Leeway In China's Border Managementmentioning

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Contested administrative capacity in border management: China and the Greater Mekong Subregion

Plümmer

2022

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This article investigates China’s efforts to develop the administrative capacity of its border agents to effectively provide border security. It does so by contextualizing national efforts in relevant multilateral cooperation on border and immigration management. Regional frameworks such as ASEAN and Greater Mekong Subregion follow a regional border management approach that challenges Beijing’s notion of sovereign border management. However, China and the border provinces selectively engage in cross-border cooperation. These cooperation projects include training programmes for immigrants, standardizing and facilitating immigration procedures at the border, joint efforts against human trafficking and illicit border mobilities, and enhancing local cross-border relations. Against this background, this article investigates how norms – such as administrative capacity and cooperation through border liaison mechanisms – are negotiated, adapted, and practised in the different regional organizations, as well as how they are implemented locally in national immigration laws and procedures in Yunnan Province. The analysis builds on a multi-method approach including fieldwork, policy, and institutional analysis. The article finds that while Chinese local and regional security interests are closely intertwined, norm dynamics are not.

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Section: Local Leeway In China's Border Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Contested administrative capacity in border management: China and the Greater Mekong Subregion

Plümmer

2022

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Rethinking Authority in China’s Border Regime

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Contested administrative capacity in border management: China and the Greater Mekong Subregion

Contested administrative capacity in border management: China and the Greater Mekong Subregion

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