Border narratives

摘要: National borders more than physically bound a territory; they also conceptually bound ideologies of the state and migration. In turn, the regulatory capacity of the state at the border produces and reproduces the individuals and places that exist within (and indeed constitute) what can be increasingly referred to as the borderland. How that border is narrated in public discourse points to how we can understand everyday deployments of ideologies of state and migration. Importantly, it also tells us how we routinely inscribe borders with meaning that serve to reinforce particular border imaginations, especially the practices of border policing. Borders are performed to multiple audiences and produce not only a range of words, languages and codes to communicate their location and function, but also the border itself. Increasingly, such border talk has involved the meshing of migration issues and the criminal justice …