English | 2021 | ISBN: 9789811634024 | 320 pages | True EPUB | 0.32 MB
This book focuses on the Visa Information System (VIS): a large-scale data infrastructure interconnecting a multiplicity of state authorities that enact border security and migration management in the European Union. The VIS is embedded within a setting of pan-European IT systems that filter international mobility, identify threatening elements, hamper the travels of poor, racialized, and alienated subjects, while at the same time facilitate the circulation of those expected to generate financial and other kinds of capital. The book examines the engineering of the VIS by analyzing how it was designed before its deployment in the field of border security, and how it is maintained to ensure continuous and secure operation. It illustrates how engineering processes that render the VIS functional are not just technoscientific, but inherently political, as they (re)configure and maintain the power to govern international mobility by digital means.

English | ASIN: B09JL3N9RL | 2021 | 8 hours and 5 minutes |MP3|M4B | 223 MB
Sharing borders with six countries and spanning a geography that extends from Pakistan to Myanmar, India is the world's largest democracy and second most populous country. It is also the site of the world's biggest crisis of statelessness, as it strips citizenship from hundreds of thousands of its people - especially those living in disputed border regions. Suchitra Vijayan traveled India's vast land border to explore how these populations live, and document how even places just few miles apart can feel like entirely different countries. With profound empathy and a novelistic eye for detail, Vijayan brings us face to face with the brutal legacy of colonialism, state violence, and government corruption. The result is a gripping, urgent dispatch from a modern India in crisis, and the full and vivid portrait of the country we've long been missing.

Invisible Borders
pdf, epub | 3.33 MB | English | Isbn:‎ 978-0671724771 | Author: Enrico Gargiulo | Year: 2021

Borders as Infrastructure: The Technopolitics of Border Control (Infrastructures) by Huub Dijstelbloem
English | August 17th, 2021 | ISBN: 0262542889 | 288 pages | True EPUB | 10.65 MB
An investigation of borders as moving entities that influence our notions of territory, authority, sovereignty, and jurisdiction.

Maria Photiou, "Art, Borders and Belonging: On Home and Migration"
English | ISBN: 1350203068 | 2021 | 226 pages | PDF | 25 MB
Art, Borders and Belonging: On Home and Migration investigates how three associated concepts-house, home and homeland-are represented in contemporary global art. The volume brings together essays which explore the conditions of global migration as a process that is always both about departures and homecomings, indeed, home-makings, through which the construction of migratory narratives are made possible. Although centrally concerned with how recent and contemporary works of art can materialize the migratory experience of movement and (re)settlement, the contributions to this book also explore how curating and exhibition practices, at both local and global levels, can extend and challenge conventional narratives of art, borders and belonging.

Tourism and Brexit : Travel, Borders and Identity
by Hazel Andrews
English | 2021 | ISBN: 1845417909 | 245 Pages | PDF | 1.84 MB

Brigitte Le Normand, "Citizens without Borders: Yugoslavia and Its Migrant Workers in Western Europe"
English | ISBN: 148750750X | 2021 | 304 pages | PDF | 18 MB
Among Eastern Europe's postwar socialist states, Yugoslavia was unique in allowing its citizens to seek work abroad in Western Europe's liberal democracies. This book charts the evolution of the relationship between Yugoslavia and its labour migrants who left to work in Western Europe in the 1960s and 1970s. It examines how migrants were perceived by policy-makers and social scientists and how they were portrayed in popular culture, including radio, newspapers, and cinema.

A Voice at the Borders of Silence By William Segal
2003 | 304 Pages | ISBN: 1585674427 | PDF | 48 MB
"A Voice at the Borders of Silence" is the story of a life of passion lived at the forefront of intersecting avant-garde movements and spent in the unyielding pursuit of the ultimate self-understanding and awareness. In a lifetime that nearly coincided with the 20th century, William Segal left a legacy of insight, compassion, and intelligence-as a businessman and publisher, an artist, and as a seeker.Segal was a disciple and interpreter of some of the most influential spiritual masters of the twentieth century; and above all, G. I. Gurdjieff, whose writings on self-realization formed the basis of his philosophy. This foundation in spiritual training enabled him to survive a near-fatal car crash and then to make a full recovery and renew his life's work with even greater vigor.The many dimensions of Segal's life are explored through his own writings and art, and through interviews with those whose lives he influenced. With dozens of full-color reproductions of Segal's paintings and contributions by Ken Burns (who made Segal the subject of three documentaries), Robert Thurman, and Peter Brook, is an unforgettable memoir that will serve as a guidebook for anyone pursuing his or her own search for self-realization and understanding.

The Borders of AIDS - Race, Quarantine, and Resistance
pdf | 1.8 MB | English | Isbn:‎ 0295748974 | Author: Chávez, Karma R.; Chatterjee, Piya; | Year: 2021

Karma R. Chávez, "The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance "
English | ISBN: 0295748974 | 2021 | 264 pages | PDF | 2 MB
As soon as US media and politicians became aware of AIDS in the early 1980s, fingers were pointed not only at the gay community but also at other countries and migrant communities, particularly Haitians, as responsible for spreading the virus. Evangelical leaders, public health officials, and the Reagan administration quickly capitalized on widespread fear of the new disease to call for quarantines, immigration bans, and deportations, scapegoating and blaming HIV-positive migrants―even as the rest of the world regarded the US as the primary exporter of the virus.