1st Edition

Borderless Worlds for Whom? Ethics, Moralities and Mobilities

    254 Pages
    by Routledge

    254 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge



    The optimism heralded by the end of the Cold War and the idea of an emerging borderless world was soon shadowed by conflicts, wars, terrorism, and new border walls. Migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees have simultaneously become key political figures. Border and mobility studies are now two sides of the same coin.





    The chapters of this volume reflect the changing relations between borders, bordering practices, and mobilities. They provide both theoretical insights and contextual knowledge on how borders, bordering practices, and ethical issues come together in mobilities. The chapters scrutinize how bounded (territorial) and open/networked (relational) spaces manifest in various contexts. The first section, ‘Borders in a borderless world’, raises theoretical questions. The second, ‘Politics of inclusion and exclusion’, looks at bordering practices in the context of migration. The third section, ‘Contested mobilities and encounters’, focuses on tourism, which has been an ‘accepted’ form of mobility but which has recently become an object of critique because of overtourism. Section four, ‘Borders, security, politics’, examines bordering practices and security in the EU and beyond, highlighting how the migration/border politics nexus has become a national and supra-national political challenge.





    The chapters of this interdisciplinary volume contribute both conceptually and empirically to understanding contemporary bordering practices and mobilities. It is essential reading for geographers, political scientists, sociologists, and international relations scholars interested in the contemporary meanings of borders and mobilities.





    1. Introduction: borders, ethics, and mobilities


    2. Anssi Paasi, Eeva-Kaisa Prokkola, Jarkko Saarinen, and Kaj Zimmerbauer



      Part I: Borders in a borderless world





    3. Borderless worlds and beyond: challenging the state-centric cartographies




    4. Anssi Paasi





    5. Imagining a borderless world




    6. Harald Bauder





    7. Borders, distance, politics




    8. Paolo Novak





      Part II: Politics of inclusion and exclusion





    9. ‘Borderless’ Europe and Brexit: young European migrant accounts of media uses and moralities




    10. Aija Lulle





    11. Everyday bordering, healthcare, and the politics of belonging in contemporary Britain




    12. Kathryn Cassidy





    13. 'Delay and Neglect': the everyday geopolitics of humanitarian borders




    14. Elisa Pascucci, Jouni Häkli, and Kirsi Pauliina Kallio





    15. Asylum reception and the politicization of national identity in Finland: a gender perspective




    Eeva-Kaisa Prokkola





    Part III: Contested mobilities and encounters



    9. Tourism, border politics, and the fault lines of mobility



    Raoul V. Bianchi and Marcus L. Stephenson



    10. Commodification of contested borderscapes for tourism development: viability, community representation, and equity of relic Iron Curtain and Sudetenland heritage tourism landscapes



    Arie Stoffelen and Dominique Vanneste



    11. Contested mobilities across the Hong Kong-Shenzhen border: the case of Sheung Shui



    J. J. Zhang





    Part IV: Borders, security, politics



    12. Trade, Trump, Security, and Ethics: The Canada-US Border in Continental Perspective



    Heather N. Nicol and Karen G. Everett



    13. Ontological (in)security: the EU’s bordering dilemma and neighbourhood



    Jussi P. Laine and James W. Scott



    14. An ethical code for cross-border governance: what does the European Union say on the ethics of cross-border cooperation?



    Elisabetta Nadalutti



    15. The role of ‘nature’ at the EU maritime borders: agency, ethics, and accountability



    Estela Schindel



    16. Afterword: borders are there to be crossed (but not by everybody)



    Noel B. Salazar





     



     

    Biography

    Anssi Paasi is Professor of Geography at the University of Oulu, Finland, and the Director of the RELATE Center of Excellence (Academy of Finland).





    Eeva-Kaisa Prokkola is Senior Research Fellow at the Geography Research Unit, University of Oulu, Finland, and a Docent in Human Geography and Border Studies at the University of Eastern Finland.





    Jarkko Saarinen is Professor of Geography in the University of Oulu, Finland, and Distinguished Visiting Professor (Sustainability Management) at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.





    Kaj Zimmerbauer is Docent at the University of Oulu, Finland, and Scientific Coordinator in the RELATE Center of Excellence (Academy of Finland).

    "This book could not be more timely as immigration becomes the issue that could break the European Union and border anxieties pervade the world of states. The book focuses on the neglected ethical dilemmas of borders: from the ways migrants are categorized as refugees and ‘economic’ migrants, for example, to the fact that tourism, one of the world's major industries by value-added, depends on easy border crossing even as others are excluded, and the idea of a world without borders as being necessarily more just than the one we presently have. If populist politicians would read more, including this book, they might rant less and reason more."

    – Professor John Agnew, UCLA, USA