Controlling national borders has once again become a key concern of contemporary states and a highly contentious issue in social and political life. But control

This volume focuses on the idea of the border and its various geopolitical, sociocultural, and cognitive incarnations. It contains sixteen essays on various asp

The northern and southern borders and borderlands of the United States should have much in common; instead they offer mirror articulations of the complex relati

Compelling and accessible, this Very Short Introduction challenges the perception of borders as passive lines on a map, revealing them instead to be integral fo

With the railroad's arrival in the late nineteenth century, immigrants of all colors rushed to the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, transforming the region into a boomi