(Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology Book 47) 1st Edition
by Thomas M. Wilson (Editor), Hastings Donnan (Editor)
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
