The Wall Around the West State Borders and Immigration Controls in North America and Europe

by Andreas, Peter; Snyder, Timothy; Alcaraz, Maria-Elena; Anderson, Malcolm; Andreas, Peter; Freudenstein, Roland; Guiraudon, Virginie; Jesien, Leszek; Koslowski, Rey; Lahav, Gallya; Mitchell, Christopher; Moha, Gustavo; Nevins, Joseph; Spener, David; Torpey

• ISBN13: 9780742501782
• ISBN10: 0742501787
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-11-22
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Even as economic and military walls have come down in the post-Cold War era, states have rapidly built new barriers to prevent a perceived invasion of undesirables. Nowhere is this more dramatically evident than along the geographic fault lines dividing rich from poor countries: especially the southern border of the United States, and the southern and eastern borders of the European Union. This volume examines the practice, politics, and consequences of building these new walls in North America and Europe. At the same time, it challenges dominant accounts of globalization, in which state borders will be irrelevant to the human experience.

Author Biography

Maria-Elena Alcaraz, a career member of the Mexican Foreign Service, represents the secretariat of external affairs at the Office of Migration Affairs at the Embassy of Mexico in Washington, D.C. Malcolm Anderson (M.A., D. Phil, D. Litt, University of Oxford) was formerly professor of politics and director of the International Social Sciences Institute of the University of Edinburgh Peter Andreas (B.A., Swarthmore College; Ph.D., Cornell University) is assistant professor of political science at Reed College Roland Freudenstein (M.A., University of Bonn; special student at the University of Southern California) is the director of the Warsaw Office of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation Virginie Guiraudon is chargee de recherche at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in France Leszek Jesien (M.A., Ph.D., Warsaw University) is an advisor to both the prime minister of Poland and the chief negotiator of Poland's accession to the European Union Rey Koslowski (Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania) is an assistant professor of political science at Rutgers University--Newark Gallya Lahav is assistant professor of political science at the State University of New York at Stony Brook Christopher Mitchell (B.A., Ph.D., Harvard University) is professor of politics and director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at New York University Gustavo Mohar is currently minister for political and congressional affairs at the Embassy of Mexico in Washington, D.C. Joseph Nevins (Ph.D., University of California--Los Angeles), a geographer, is a Rockefeller Foundation Residential "Community in Contention" postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley Timothy Snyder (B.A., Brown University; D. Phil., University of Oxford), a historian, is presently an academy scholar at Harvard University, and will shortly take up an assistant professorship at the University of Virginia David Spener (Ph.D., University of Texas--Austin) is assistant professor of sociology at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas John Torpey (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) currently teaches in the departments of sociology and history and the Institute for European Studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver Milada Anna Vachudova (B.A., Stanford University; M. Phil., D. Phil., University of Oxford), a political scientist, is a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Maps	viii
Introduction: The Wall after the Wall	1	(14)
Peter Andreas
Part One: Historical and Comparative Perspectives
The Transformation of Border Controls: A European Precedent?	15	(16)
Malcolm Anderson
States and the Regulation of Migration in the Twentieth-Century North Atlantic World	31	(24)
John Torpey
Comparative Perspectives on Border Control: Away from the Border and Outside the State	55	(26)
Gallya Lahav
Virginie Guiraudon
Part Two: U.S. Border Controls
The Political Costs of State Power: U.S. Border Control in South Florida	81	(18)
Christopher Mitchell
The Remaking of the California-Mexico Boundary in the Age of NAFTA	99	(16)
Joseph Nevins
The Logic and Contradictions of Intensified Border Enforcement in Texas	115	(24)
David Spener
U.S. Border Controls: A Mexican Perspective	139	(14)
Gustavo Mohar
Maria-Elena Alcaraz
Part Three: European Border Controls
Eastern Europe as Gatekeeper: The Immigration and Asylum Policies of an Enlarging European Union	153	(20)
Milada Anna Vachudova
Rio Odra, Rio Buh: Poland, Germany, and the Borders of Twenty-First-Century Europe	173	(12)
Roland Freudenstein
Border Controls and the Politics of EU Enlargement	185	(18)
Leszek Jesien
The Mobility Money Can Buy: Human Smuggling and Border Control in the European Union	203	(16)
Rey Koslowski
Conclusion: The Wall around the West	219	(10)
Timothy Snyder
Index	229	(10)
About the Contributors	239