Thomas M. Wilson is Professor of Anthropology at Binghamton University, State University of New York. From 2008-2010 he was president of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe.

Hastings Donnan is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation and Social Justice at Queen's University Belfast.

Thomas M. Wilson and Hastings Donnan have previously co-authored The Anthropology of Ireland and Borders: Frontiers of Identity, Nation and State.

A Companion to Border Studies introduces an exciting and expanding field of interdisciplinary research, through the writing of an international array of scholars, from diverse perspectives that include anthropology, development studies, geography, history, political science and sociology.
* Explores how nations and cultural identities are being transformed by their dynamic, shifting borders where mobility is sometimes facilitated, other times impeded or prevented
* Offers an array of international views which together form an authoritative guide for students, instructors and researchers
* Reflects recent significant growth in the importance of understanding the distinctive characteristics of borders and frontiers, including cross-border cooperation, security and controls, migration and population displacements, hybridity, and transnationalism

List of Figures and Table viii
Notes on Contributors ix
1 Borders and Border Studies 1
Thomas M. Wilson and Hastings Donnan
Part I Sovereignty, Territory and Governance 27
2 Partition 29
Brendan O'Leary
3 Culture Theory and the US-Mexico Border 48
Josiah McC. Heyman
4 The African Union Border Programme in European Comparative Perspective 66
Anthony I. Asiwaju
5 European Politics of Borders, Border Symbolism and Cross-Border Cooperation 83
James Wesley Scott
6 Securing Borders in Europe and North America 100
Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly
7 Border Regimes, the Circulation of Violence and the Neo-authoritarian Turn 119
John Borneman
Part II States, Nations and Empires 137
8 Borders in the New Imperialism 139
James Anderson
9 Contested States, Frontiers and Cities 158
Liam O'Dowd
10 The State, Hegemony and the Historical British-US Border 177
Allan K. McDougall and Lisa Philips
11 Nations, Nationalism and "Borderization" in the Southern Cone 194
Alejandro Grimson
12 Debordering and Rebordering the United Kingdom 214
Cathal McCall
13 "Swarming" at the Frontiers of France, 1870-1885 230
Olivier Thomas Kramsch
14 Borders and Conflict Resolution 249
David Newman
Part III Security, Order and Disorder 267
15 Chaos and Order along the (Former) Iron Curtain 269
Mathijs Pelkmans
16 Border Security as Late-Capitalist "Fix" 283
Brenda Chalfin
17 Identity, the State and Borderline Disorder 301
Dan Rabinowitz
18 African Boundaries and the New Capitalist Frontier 318
Timothy Raeymaekers
19 Bandits, Borderlands and Opium Wars in Afghanistan 332
Jonathan Goodhand
20 Biosecurity, Quarantine and Life across the Border 354
Alan Smart and Josephine Smart
21 Permeabilities, Ecology and Geopolitical Boundaries 371
Hilary Cunningham
Part IV Displacement, Emplacement and Mobility 387
22 Borders and the Rhythms of Displacement, Emplacement and Mobility 389
Pamela Ballinger
23 Remapping Borders 405
Henk van Houtum
24 From Border Policing to Internal Immigration Control in the United States 419
Mathew Coleman
25 Labor Migration, Traffi cking and Border Controls 438
Michele Ford and Lenore Lyons
26 Spatial Strategies for Rebordering Human Migration at Sea 455
Alison Mountz and Nancy Hiemstra
27 "B/ordering" and Biopolitics in Central Asia 473
Nick Megoran
28 Border, Scene and Obscene 492
Nicholas De Genova
Part V Space, Performance and Practice 505
29 Border Show Business and Performing States 507
David B. Coplan
30 Performativity and the Eventfulness of Bordering Practices 522
Robert J. Kaiser
31 Reconceptualizing the Space of the Mexico-US Borderline 538
Robert R. Alvarez, Jr
32 Border Towns and Cities in Comparative Perspective 557
Paul Nugent
33 A Sense of Border 573
Sarah Green
Index 593