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dehumanise individuals and censor the public’s engagement with asylum seekers, through physical borders at onshore and offshore detention centres. These borders solidify when the media circulates pervasive toxic atmospheres of xenophobic nationalism that fix those seeking asylum as illegals and potential terrorists. Given the emergence of these carceral sites that fuel despair, fear and anxiety, this article highlights the role that city spaces play in dismantling physical and metaphorical borders. We
Michele Lobo,
Kaya Barry
Borderlands , ISSUE 2, 8–36
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Introduction
Colonialism left numerous borders in its wake that subsequently became contested, either through legal processes or in all out wars, and often combinations of both and/or something in-between (see for example Shelley 2004; Young 1983). On the African continent, even though the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), the front-runner of today’s African Union (AU), in 1964 accepted Africa’s colonial borders as recognized international post-colonial borders, these borders were still
Tanja R. Müller
Borderlands , ISSUE 1, 147–173
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commitment to undoing entrenched patterns of violence (Reilly 2011; Brown M 2002).
Borders (both conceptual and material) are relevant to human rights in at least two, closely related ways. The first way concerns what happens when something that is understood to be universal and to transcend the borders of states is not universal, but is instead dependent on bordered constructions of entities and territories, often legally but even more so conceptually. The aspiration to be applicable to human beings
M. Anne Brown
Borderlands , ISSUE 1, 88–114
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Introduction
Materially and symbolically manifest, borders are shaped by history, politics and power. They take various forms, have multiple functions and are ceaselessly changing, from the building of a new Mexico US wall, the collection of bio-metric data in India and the creation of national parks that delimit human and non-human mobility. Through a wide array of material, digital and virtual technologies borders divide, exclude, contain, categorise, control, govern and protect people. For
Elise Klein,
Uma Kothari
Borderlands , ISSUE 2, 1–7
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Introduction
Materially and symbolically manifest, borders are shaped by history, politics and power. They take various forms, have multiple functions and are ceaselessly changing, from the building of a new Mexico-US wall, the collection of bio-metric data in India to the creation of national parks that delimit human and non-human mobility. Through a wide array of material, digital and virtual technologies borders divide, exclude, contain, categorise, control, govern and protect people. For
Elise Klein,
Uma Kothari
Borderlands , ISSUE 1, 1–7
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Introduction
As the refugee crisis extends across Europe and elsewhere, seascapes are taking on new dimensions, with borders being redrawn away from shorelines. Refugees are now crossing waters that have become extended to constitute newly forged sovereign borders that are subject to increased maritime surveillance, organised to prevent refugees landing on European and Australian shores. This has reinforced the significance of the distinction between land and sea and foregrounded the role of
Uma Kothari
Borderlands , ISSUE 1, 63–87
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policy position. Coalition Leader Tony Abbott and Shadow Immigration minister Scott Morrison publicly supported the policy but continually reiterated that the Prime Minister and the ALP were too incompetent to implement such a policy. On the 27th July, the Coalition announced its campaign centrepiece, the introduction, should they win office, of Operation Sovereign Borders (OSB), a policy which would move asylum seekers arriving by boat, both literally and figuratively, into the domain of the
Leicha Stewart
Borderlands , ISSUE 2, 85–115
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indefinitely to Nauru and Manus Island and since then a whole range of brutal measures have been taken to ensure detainees are not transferred to Australia or resettled in a safe third country. Behrouz Boochani’s boat crossed into Australian waters four days after this policy was introduced in 2013. Later in the same year the newly elected conservative government under Tony Abbott and immigration minister Scott Morrison (who is now PM at the time of writing) introduced Operation Sovereign Borders which
Behrouz Boochani,
Omid Tofighian
Borderlands , ISSUE 1, 8–26
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& Wolfe 2017).
While shedding light on contemporary phenomena of exile and migration, travelling narratives and images also invite us to reconsider the way factors such as materiality and gender are accentuated in the crossing of borders. Travelling narratives and images may also re-present and destabilise categories such as gender, class, ethnicity, family and sexuality and challenge existing understandings of multilingualism, multilingual literature and aesthetic practices, thus inviting a
Sigrun Åsebø,
Anje Müller Gjesdal,
Camilla Skalle
Borderlands , ISSUE 1, 1–11
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improvements in trade and transport crossings of the EU borders, considering the need for more vigilant and less time-consuming checks at the outside borders of the EU.
Mihaela POPA,
Eugen ROSCA,
Florin RUSCA,
Dorinela COSTESCU,
Vasile DRAGU
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Dong Chuang
International Journal of Advanced Network, Monitoring and Controls , ISSUE 4, 38–46
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The use of wireless sensor networks to protect sensitive facilities or international borders has attracted more and more attention. In contrast to previous studies in which the barrier coverage problem was solved under the assumption of an omni-directional sensing model, the current study presents a scheme for constructing k-barrier coverage using randomly deployed sensors with directional sensing model. The performance of the proposed scheme was evaluated using the ns-2 network simulator and
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Wei-Tong Wang,
Feng-Kuang Wu,
Tzu-Ting Wu
International Journal on Smart Sensing and Intelligent Systems , ISSUE 1, 75–93
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sacred, taboo, partially hidden and partially manifest realm of life’s mystery’. We argue that for the people of Koba Lima these concepts are exemplar modalities for engaging with borders and continuously re-working ideas of unity and division, of union and separation, from the mundane to the esoteric across phenomenal and non-phenomenal (noumenal) realms.
Borders: Creation and Separation in Koba Lima
Koba Lima are words of Tetun Terik, the language spoken in different parts of Timor-Leste and West
Balthasar Kehi,
Lisa Palmer
Borderlands , ISSUE 2, 64–84
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Introduction
Governed by a collective of 54 signatory countries with a policy of access to all, Antarctica is arguably the only geographical territory left on Earth without political borders. However, both geographically and politically, the picture of Antarctic borders is not straightforward, and warrants attention. Geographically, the moving sea ice and ice sheets create a dynamic intersection of sea and not-sea that challenges geographic definitions of ‘territory’ (Murray 2005). Politically
Germana Nicklin
Borderlands , ISSUE 1, 27–62
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Due to the development of civilization, people’s needs and expectations increase. The global development of civilization, the desire of some countries to expand their borders and achieve a higher political, social and military influence, cause insecurity among the people. Security is one of the main factors for the proper functioning of individuals and whole societies. Currently, a major threat to people is terrorism. Especially dangerous is the use of biological weapons for this purpose
Karol Abramczyk,
Anna Gałązka
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major obstacles to comprehensive multimodal transport management within and beyond European Union borders. Though information and communication technologies (ICT) have entered into all traffic and transport systems, the levels of ICT penetration achieved in controlling, monitoring, and managing of system operation and processes are currently quite different [1-5]. One of the reasons for that is the lack of homogenous ICT standards and, as a result, the technological barriers for interconnectivity
Evelin ENGLER,
Stefan GEWIES,
Paweł BANYŚ,
Erik GRUNEWALD
Transport Problems , ISSUE 1, 81–96