Borderlands : comparing border security in North America and Europe / edited by Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly.
Border security has been high on public-policy agendas in Europe and North America since the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York City and on the headquarters of the American military in Washington DC. Governments are now confronted with managing secure borders, a policy...
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University of Ottawa Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Borders, Borderlands, and Porosity; Chapter 1. The Maritime Borders of Europe: Upstream Migratory Controls; Chapter 2. Whose Security? Dilemmas of US Border Security in the Arizona-Sonora Borderlands; Chapter 3. Border Acrobatics between the European Union and Africa: The Management of Sealed-off Permeability on the Borders of Ceuta and Melilla; Chapter 4. Fayuca Hormiga: The Cross-border Trade of Used Clothing between the United States and Mexico; Chapter 5. A New Northern Security Agenda.
- Chapter 6. From Iron Curtain to Paper Wall: The Influence of Border Regimes on Local and Regional Economies--The Life, Death, and Resurrection of Bazaars in the Lódz RegionChapter 7. The Economic Cost of Border Security: The Case of the Texas-Mexico Border and the US VISIT Program; Chapter 8. The Costs of Homeland Security; Chapter 9. Managing US-Mexico Transborder Cooperation on Local Security Issues and the Canadian Relationship; Chapter 10. Anti-terrorism in North America: Is There Convergence or Divergence in Canadian and US Legislative Responses to 9/11 and the US-Canada Border?
- Chapter 11. The Southern Border of Mexico in the Age of GlobalizationChapter 12. Conclusion: Borders, Borderlands, and Security: European and North American Lessons and Public Policy Suggestions; List of Contributors; Index.