Europe is a place of free movement among nations – or is it? The Schengen area, established in 1985 and today encompassing twenty-nine European countries, allows people, goods, and capital to cross borders without restraint. Schengen transformed European life, advancing both a democratic...

"In the UK's fully outsourced "immigration detainee escorting system," private sector security employees detain, circulate and deport foreign national citizens. Run and organized like a supply chain, this system dehumanises those who are detained and deported, treating them as if they were...

In a modernist interpretation of migration controls, nation states play a major role. This book challenges this interpretation by showing that comprehensive migration checks and permanent border controls appeared much earlier, in early modern dynastic states and empires, and predated nation...

In Challenges to US and Mexican Police and Tourism Stability, author Peter Tarlow examines the US-Mexico border crisis and its impact on tourism, along with tourism security in both the United States and Mexico. He also examines the impact of police corruption and cartels on the tourism...

Der Artikel befasst sich mit dem Phänomen räumlich flexibilisierter Grenzkontrollinstrumente. Diese verlagern die Kontrolle von Personenmobilität an vielfältige Orte und lösen sie damit von der territorialen Grenzlinie. Ausgangspunkt der Analyse ist die Annahme, dass sich die liberalen...