Immigrants, migrants, displaced and diasporic persons: all have been constrained or enabled by borders of some sort.This bookexplores international cases of how and why such boundaries come to be, how they affect individuals and nation-states, and what can be done to the solve the inequities they cause.
Immigrants, migrants, displaced, and diasporic persons: all have been constrained or enabled by borders of some sort. This book explores international cases of how and why such boundaries come to be; who is affected by socially constructed borders; what it means to individuals and nation-states to recognise and deal with arbitrary divisions; and finally, what might be done to find ¿ and act on ¿ solutions to the inequity wrought by these borders and boundaries.