Pub Date : 2022-10-28DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2129424
Samata Biswas
ABSTRACT In this article, I closely read Manjira Saha’s 2018 volume Chhotoder Border. a collection of children's line drawings and short narratives collated from school children in the India- Bangladesh borderlands. Certain recurring tropes emerge from these rough drawings and short descriptions, rife with spelling mistakes. The border, an English word repeatedly transcribed in Bengali, does not need an introduction or justification in the lives of these children of the borderlands–the materiality of the border is represented through barbed wire fences, through the “police” who are at once scary and helpful, and the repeated, casual reference to trafficking in goods. I identify the materiality and the affective dimensions of the border through the narratives and drawings in Chhotoder Border. This article analyses the linguistic and visual texts collected by Saha in the volume to understand the framing of the materiality of the Indo- Bangladesh border as well as its affective import among the students who are the contributors to Saha's volume. In so doing, it contributes to the burgeoning discourse around the “cultural aspect of borders”. By investigating the “figurations” or narrative tropes/themes present in these border narratives this article furthers the understanding of discursive construction and circulation of borders.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-19DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2134909
Roxane Doty
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Pub Date : 2022-10-16DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2134910
Miriam Romero
The U.S.-Mexico border region is more than a geographical space. The border has been an area of negotiation, a place of encounters and interaction that involves communication, intense movement of people, and socio-cultural interactions that converge in this peculiar space. Written by Sarah Luna, Love in the Drug War (2020) compiles face-to-face interviews, pictures, and fi eld research. The purpose of this work is to present a broad and in-depth understanding of the lives of sex workers in the border town of Reynosa, Mexico. It o ff ers insights into the “ love and obligation that inspired peoples ’ journey to the border town ” (3). Luna focuses her research on the prostitution zone known as Boystown. “ Love and obligation ” (3) are what connect the stories of the area ’ s inhabitants. The main characters are sex workers and American missionaries whose journeys are paradoxically linked to service. Furthermore, Luna ’ s work builds upon research on current issues such as migration, mobility, drug cartels, and other topics pertinent to the border region. The book is organized in a way that develops and connects the testimonies collected by Luna. The background research is linked to two di ff erent main groups of migrants. On the one hand, we have the missionaries that come from all over the United States to the border region seeking to help sex workers by delivering God ’ s word to them. On the other hand, we have the sex workers who are mostly migrants from central and southern Mexico. In a way, both missionaries and sex workers are migrants to Boystown, and they are connected by their mission to serve others.
{"title":"Serving Others: The Relationship Between Missionaries and Sex Workers at the Border","authors":"Miriam Romero","doi":"10.1080/08865655.2022.2134910","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08865655.2022.2134910","url":null,"abstract":"The U.S.-Mexico border region is more than a geographical space. The border has been an area of negotiation, a place of encounters and interaction that involves communication, intense movement of people, and socio-cultural interactions that converge in this peculiar space. Written by Sarah Luna, Love in the Drug War (2020) compiles face-to-face interviews, pictures, and fi eld research. The purpose of this work is to present a broad and in-depth understanding of the lives of sex workers in the border town of Reynosa, Mexico. It o ff ers insights into the “ love and obligation that inspired peoples ’ journey to the border town ” (3). Luna focuses her research on the prostitution zone known as Boystown. “ Love and obligation ” (3) are what connect the stories of the area ’ s inhabitants. The main characters are sex workers and American missionaries whose journeys are paradoxically linked to service. Furthermore, Luna ’ s work builds upon research on current issues such as migration, mobility, drug cartels, and other topics pertinent to the border region. The book is organized in a way that develops and connects the testimonies collected by Luna. The background research is linked to two di ff erent main groups of migrants. On the one hand, we have the missionaries that come from all over the United States to the border region seeking to help sex workers by delivering God ’ s word to them. On the other hand, we have the sex workers who are mostly migrants from central and southern Mexico. In a way, both missionaries and sex workers are migrants to Boystown, and they are connected by their mission to serve others.","PeriodicalId":45999,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Borderlands Studies","volume":"38 1","pages":"189 - 190"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47965545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-14DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2134908
J. Gerber
{"title":"Unequal Neighbors: Place Stigma and the Making of a Local Border","authors":"J. Gerber","doi":"10.1080/08865655.2022.2134908","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08865655.2022.2134908","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45999,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Borderlands Studies","volume":"38 1","pages":"185 - 186"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46730597","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2129426
Lola Aubry
{"title":"What Comes to Matter as Border: On Parisian Borderness Dynamics","authors":"Lola Aubry","doi":"10.1080/08865655.2022.2129426","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08865655.2022.2129426","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45999,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Borderlands Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43480992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-28DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2129427
Xavier Oliveras-González
{"title":"Twin Cities across Five Continents. Interactions and Tensions on Urban Borders","authors":"Xavier Oliveras-González","doi":"10.1080/08865655.2022.2129427","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08865655.2022.2129427","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45999,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Borderlands Studies","volume":"38 1","pages":"183 - 184"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45844889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-25DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2125043
Carla Angulo-Pasel
Examines how the US-Mexico border is seen through visual codes of surveillance When Donald Trump promised to “build a wall” on the U.S.-Mexico border, both supporters and opponents visualized a snaking barrier of concrete cleaving through nearly two thousand miles of arid desert. Though only 4 percent of the US population lives in proximity to the border, imagining what the wall would look like came easily to most Americans, in part because of how images of the border are reproduced and circulated for national audiences. Border Optics considers the US-Mexico border as one of the most visualized and imagined spaces in the US. As a place of continual crisis, permanent visibility, and territorial defense, the border is rendered as a layered visual space of policing—one that is seen from watchtowers, camera-mounted vehicles, helicopters, surveillance balloons, radar systems, unmanned aerial vehicles, and live streaming websites. It is also a space that is visualized across various forms and genres of media, from maps to geographical surveys, military strategic plans, illustrations, photographs, postcards, novels, film, and television, which combine fascination with the region with the visual codes of surveillance and survey. Border Optics elaborates on the expanded vision of the border as a consequence of the interface of militarism, technology, and media. Camilla Fojas describes how the perception of the viewing public is controlled through a booming security-industrial complex made up of entertainment media, local and federal police, prisons and detention centers, the aerospace industry, and all manner of security technology industries. The first study to examine visual codes of surveillance within an analysis of the history and culture of the border region, Border Optics is an innovative and groundbreaking examination of security cultures, race, gender, and colonialism.... Download ebook, read file pdf Surveillance Cultures on the USMexico Frontier
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Pub Date : 2022-09-20DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2125041
D. J. Andersen
{"title":"A review of Paulina Ochoa Espejo's monograph, On Borders","authors":"D. J. Andersen","doi":"10.1080/08865655.2022.2125041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08865655.2022.2125041","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45999,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Borderlands Studies","volume":"37 1","pages":"1097 - 1098"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44948662","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-16DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2125042
Grazia Tona
{"title":"Borders as infrastructure: the technopolitics of border control","authors":"Grazia Tona","doi":"10.1080/08865655.2022.2125042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08865655.2022.2125042","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45999,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Borderlands Studies","volume":"37 1","pages":"1099 - 1101"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49460195","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-14DOI: 10.1080/08865655.2022.2115387
Miguel Angel Mansilla Agüero, Johanna Corrine Slootweg
{"title":"Cross-border Religious Practices: Evangelical Churches as Networks of Mobility on the Chilean-Bolivian Frontier","authors":"Miguel Angel Mansilla Agüero, Johanna Corrine Slootweg","doi":"10.1080/08865655.2022.2115387","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08865655.2022.2115387","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45999,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Borderlands Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46947553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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