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1 Mobility & Politics Series Editors: Martin Geiger (Carleton University, Canada), Parvati Raghuram (Open University, UK) and William Walters (Carleton University, Canada) Global Advisory Board: Michael Collyer, University of Sussex; Susan B. Coutin, University of California, Irvine; Raúl Delgado Wise, University of Zacatecas; Nicholas De Genova, Goldsmiths, University of London; Eleonore Kofman, Middlesex University; Rey Koslowski, State University of New York; Loren B. Landau, Wits University; Sandro Mezzadra, University of Bologna; Alison Mountz, Wilfrid Laurier University; Brett Neilson, University of Western Sydney; Antoine Pécoud, University Paris 13; Ranabir Samaddar, Calcutta Research Group; Nandita Sharma, University of Hawaii at Manoa; Tesfaye Tafesse, Addis Ababa University; Thanh-Dam Truong, Erasmus University Human mobility, whatever its scale, is often controversial. Hence it carries with it the potential for politics. A core feature of mobility politics is the tension between the desire to maximize the social and economic benefits of migration, and pressures to restrict movement. Transnational communities, global instability, advances in transportation and communication, and concepts of smart borders and migration management are just a few of the phenomena transforming the landscape of migration today. The tension between openness and restriction raises important questions about how different types of policies and politics come to life and influence mobility. Mobility & Politics invites original, theoretically and empirically informed studies for academic and policy-oriented debates. Authors examine issues such as refugees and displacement, migration and citizenship, security and cross-border movements, (post-)colonialism and mobility, and transnational movements and cosmopolitics. Titles include: Chris Rumford COSMOPOLITAN BORDERS Mobility & Politics Series Standing Order ISBN hardback (outside North America only) You can receive future titles in this series as they are published by placing a standing order. Please contact your bookseller or, in case of difficulty, write to us at the address below with your name and address, the title of the series and the ISBN quoted above. Customer Services Department, Macmillan Distribution Ltd, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS, England DOI: /

2 Also by Chris Rumford EUROPEAN MULTIPLICITY (co-edited with Didem Buhari-Gulmez) NEW PERSPECTIVES ON TURKEY-EU RELATIONS (editor) THE GLOBALIZATION OF STRANGENESS TWENTY20 AND THE FUTURE OF CRICKET (editor) CRICKET AND GLOBALIZATION (co-edited with Stephen Wagg) HANDBOOK OF EUROPEAN STUDIES (editor) CITIZENS AND BORDERWORK IN CONTEMPORARY EUROPE (editor) COSMOPOLITAN SPACES: EUROPE, GLOBALIZATION, THEORY COSMOPOLITANISM AND EUROPE (editor) RETHINKING EUROPE: Social Theory and the Implications of Europeanization (co-authored with Gerard Delanty) THE EUROPEAN UNION: A Political Sociology EUROPEAN COHESION? Contradictions in EU Integration DOI: /

3 Cosmopolitan Borders Chris Rumford Department of Politics and International Relations, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK DOI: /

4 Chris Rumford 2014 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6 10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The author has asserted his right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act First published 2014 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number , of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave and Macmillan are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN ISBN (ebook) DOI / A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.

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6 Contents Series Editors Foreword Acknowledgements vii ix 1 Introduction 1 2 Citizen Vernacular: The Case of Borderwork 22 3 Seeing Like a Border : Towards Multiperspectivalism 39 4 Fixity/Unfixity 55 5 Connectivites: Monumentalizing Borders 73 6 Concluding Comments 88 References 92 Index 102 vi DOI: /

7 Series Editors Foreword Reflecting on the character and function of the wall with regard to the Medieval town Lewis Mumford, the noted American historian and architectural critic, drew his readers attention to the matter of the town gate.* The gate was far more than an opening. It was, in fact, the meeting point of two worlds, the zone at which the urban encounters the rural, and the insider meets the outsider. As places where the river of traffic slows down it was at these gates that economic activity also started to thicken, and where all sorts of control functions, including customs houses, passport offices, storehouses and inns, would gather. Mumford also reminds us that the original meaning of the word port comes from portal, and that originally the word porter referred to the merchants who settled in this part of the city; only later would they pass this name on to their menial helpers. Mixing up settlement and flow, protection and hospitality, commerce and control, citizen and alien, the portal was surely a most dynamic region in the landscape of the Medieval power. We envisage that Mobility & Politics will serve not just as a pivot but as a portal, resonating with some of the themes that Mumford highlights. First, our series is intended to further push the boundaries of the social sciences in terms of their encounters with mobility, migration and power. To say the disciplines are still walled is no doubt too strong. * Lewis Mumford, The City in History: Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1961, pp DOI: / vii

8 viii Series Editors Foreword That said, deeply ingrained tendencies towards disciplinary thinking do sometimes seem to inhibit creativity and insight in studies of migration and mobility. We hope publications in this series will exemplify the best of, and potential for, counter-disciplinary thought. Second, we hope that Mobility & Politics will grow into a zone of encounter where the boundaries demarcating domestic and foreign, citizen and stranger, resident and migrant will appear less settled and assured. Porters of the world unite! To be both pivot and portal is, of course, far from easy! But what better way to inaugurate this series and to take up its difficult challenge than with the publication of Chris Rumford s Cosmopolitan Borders. While commonplace as well as many academic understandings of the border still equate it overwhelmingly with practices of control and enclosure, Chris Rumford shows us the great many ways in which borders not only divide but join, enclose but also bridge, separate but also connect people and places. Moreover, he demonstrates that these connections are not limited to contiguous peoples and territories. They can be far flung: topological as much as topographical. As such he shows that the study of borders can illuminate how we understand the global and the cosmos, and new forms of affiliation as well as division. Martin Geiger, Carleton University Parvati Raghuram, Open University William Walters, Carleton University DOI: /

9 Acknowledgements I would like to thank Anthony Cooper and Chris Perkins, both of whom have co-authored papers with me in which some of the ideas contained here were first aired. DOI: / ix

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