Borders, mobility and technologies of control

Territorial borders are taking on a new significance, the implications of which are relatively unexplored within the discipline of criminology. This book presents the first systematic attempt to develop a critical criminology of the border and offers a un

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Borders, Mobility and Technologies of Control  

BORDERS, MOBILITY AND TECHNOLOGIES OF CONTROL

Borders, Mobility and Technologies of Control Edited by

Sharon Pickering, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

and

Leanne Weber University of New South Wales, NSW, Australia

A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.

ISBN-10 ISBN-13 ISBN-10 ISBN-13

1-4020-4898-X (HB) 978-1-4020-4898-2 (HB) 1-4020-4899-8 (e-book) 978-1-4020-4899-9 (e-book)

Published by Springer, P.O. Box 17, 3300 AA Dordrecht, The Netherlands. www.springer.com

Printed on acid-free paper

All Rights Reserved © 2006 Springer No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed in the Netherlands

This book is dedicated to the world’s vagabonds: for Stephen, who made it, and others who didn’t.

Contents

Contributing Authors

ix

Acknowledgments

xi

Borders, Mobility and Technologies of Control SHARON PICKERING AND LEANNE WEBER

1

The Shifting Frontiers of Migration Control LEANNE WEBER

21

Border Narratives SHARON PICKERING

45

Global Flows, Semi-permeable Borders and New Channels of Inequality 63 NANCY A. WONDERS Biometrics, Borders and the Ideal Suspect DEAN WILSON

87

Borders, Belonging and Homeland (In)security MONA J. E. DANNER

111

Control, Protection and Negligence ALICE HILLS

123

vii

viii

Contents

State Crime Beyond Borders PENNY GREEN

149

The Gender of Control JAN CARPENTER

167

Law and Order on the Border in the Neo-colonial Antipodes KERRY CARRINGTON

179

De-territorialising Criminology SHARON PICKERING AND LEANNE WEBER

207

Index

213

Contributing Authors

Jan Carpenter is a PhD student in history at Northern Arizona University, studying immigration, race and gender in the United States–Mexico borderlands. Her first doctorate, in which she investigated motivations for corporate lobbying behaviour, is from Texas A&M University. Professor Kerry Carrington Chair in Sociology in the School of Social Sciences at University of New England in northern New South Wales, has a wide variety of research interests in criminology, sociology, social policy and gender studies. She is author of Offending Girls: Sex Youth & Justice (1993) and Who Killed Leigh Leigh? (1998); co-author of Policing the Rural Crisis (2006) and co-editor of Critical Criminology: Issues, Debates & Challenge (2002), Travesty! Miscarriages of Justice (1991) and Cultures of Crime and Violence (1995). In 2003, she worked as a senior researcher for the Australian Parliament and wrote a number of social policy briefs about immigration crime, border control, trafficking and the sex industry. Mona J.E. Danner is Associate Professor of Sociology and Crimi