Porous Borders? Geography, Power and Techniques of Movement

1 Unit · Undergraduate

At the advent of globalization scholars have argued that the movements of capital, commodities and people across nation-states have rendered their borders increasingly porous. The death of the nation-state was announced elsewhere. Yet, in the epoch of offshored refugee processing centers and border walls, this assumed porosity of borders begs a reexamination of broader geographies of power and techniques of movement.