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"With globalisation established as a process that shrinks the space-time continuum and increases social density, the task before us is to normalise the sometimes bewildering outcomes by means of historical work. Vigneswaran does that for migration."
- Iver Neumann, Montague Burton Professor of IR, London School of Economics, UK
"Vigneswaran demonstrates adroitly how imagined cartographies produce territorial control of mobility. He delivers on the radical opening premise that while human migration transforms political space, political systems remain inept in responding to migration. He contextualizes contemporary border enforcement with alternative historical narratives of state territoriality. The book offers thoughtful and far-reaching analysis of European history to posit mental maps as 'radical simplifications' of space designed to control. Vigneswaran moves daringly beyond critique to ask how future systems of governance might actually work. This is an essential, lively, and illuminating read for anyone interested in political geography, mobility and territoriality."
- Alison Mountz, Balsillie School of International Affairs, Canada
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Darshan Vigneswaran is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Urban Studies, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands and a Senior Researcher at the African Centre for Migration and Society, WITS University, South Africa. He has held fellowships at Oxford University, UK and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Germany. He is the co-editor of Slavery, Migration and Contemporary Bondage in Africa (2012) and currently studies migration control, state development and policing in India and South Africa.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Territory, Migration and the Evolution of the International System
Authors: Darshan Vigneswaran
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in International Relations
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230391291
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-39128-4Published: 27 September 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-35156-5Published: 01 January 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-39129-1Published: 24 September 2013
Series ISSN: 2946-2673
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2681
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 158
Topics: Political History, Migration, Geography, general, European Politics, International Relations, International Organization