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Border Frictions - Gender, Generation and Technology on the Frontline (Paperback)
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Border Frictions - Gender, Generation and Technology on the Frontline (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Criminal Justice, Borders and Citizenship
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How did Canadian border officers come to think of themselves as a
"police of the border"? This book tells the story of the shift to
law enforcement in Canadian border control. From the 1990s onward,
it traces the transformation of a customs organization into a
border-policing agency. Border Frictions investigates how
considerable political efforts and state resources have made
bordering a matter of security and trade facilitation best managed
with surveillance technologies. Based on interviews with border
officers, ethnographic work carried out in the vicinity of land
border ports of entry and policy analysis, this book illuminates
features seldom reviewed by critical border scholars. These include
the fraught circulation of data, the role of unions in shaping the
border policy agenda, the significance of professional
socialization in the making of distinct generations of security
workers and evidence of the masculinization of bordering. In a time
when surveillance technologies track the mobilities of goods and
people and push their control beyond and inside geopolitical
borderlines, Cote-Boucher unpacks how we came to accept the idea
that it is vital to deploy coercive bordering tactics at the land
border. Written in a clear and engaging style, this book will
appeal to students and scholars in criminology, sociology, social
theory, politics, and geography and appeal to those interested in
learning about the everyday reality of policing the border.
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