Security at the borders : transnational practices and technologies in West Africa / Philippe M. Frowd, University of Ottawa.

By:

Frowd, Philippe M [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2018Description: viii, 218 p. : ill. ; 24 cmContent type:

text

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unmediated

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volume

ISBN:

9781108470100

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Additional physical formats: ebook version :: No titleLOC classification:

JV9020 .F93

Contents:

1. Introduction -- Part I -- 2. Borderwork Assemblages in West Africa -- 3. Security Knowledge and the Politics of Intervention -- Part II -- 4. From Migration Crisis to Cooperacion -- 5. Border Infrastructures and Statebuilding in Mauritania -- 6. Biometric Borderwork -- 7. Conclusion.

Summary: Borders are not just lines in the sand, but increasingly globalised spaces of practice. This is the case in West Africa, where a growing range of local and international officials are brought together by ambitious security projects around common anxieties. These projects include efforts to stop irregular migration by sea through international police cooperation, reinforcing infrastructures at border posts, and the application of new digital identification tools to identify and track increasingly mobile citizens. These interventions are driven by global and local security agendas, by biometric passport rules as much as competition between local security agencies. This book draws on the author's multi-sited ethnography in Mauritania and Senegal, showing how border security practices and technologies operate to build state security capacity, transform how state agencies work, and produce new forms of authority and expertise.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-2010) and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction -- Part I -- 2. Borderwork Assemblages in West Africa -- 3. Security Knowledge and the Politics of Intervention -- Part II -- 4. From Migration Crisis to Cooperacion -- 5. Border Infrastructures and Statebuilding in Mauritania -- 6. Biometric Borderwork -- 7. Conclusion.

Borders are not just lines in the sand, but increasingly globalised spaces of practice. This is the case in West Africa, where a growing range of local and international officials are brought together by ambitious security projects around common anxieties. These projects include efforts to stop irregular migration by sea through international police cooperation, reinforcing infrastructures at border posts, and the application of new digital identification tools to identify and track increasingly mobile citizens. These interventions are driven by global and local security agendas, by biometric passport rules as much as competition between local security agencies. This book draws on the author's multi-sited ethnography in Mauritania and Senegal, showing how border security practices and technologies operate to build state security capacity, transform how state agencies work, and produce new forms of authority and expertise.

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