CROSSING THE WORLDS BUSIEST BO
CROSSING THE WORLDS BUSIEST BO

Author: 黃美珊

Publisher: Open Dissertation Press

Published: 2017-01-26

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9781361051252

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This dissertation, "Crossing the World's Busiest Border for Knowledge: Cross-border Students in Hong Kong" by 黃美珊, Mei-shan, Wong, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. DOI: 10.5353/th_b3197261 Subjects: Children of immigrants - China - Hong Kong - Education

Crossing the World's Busiest Border
Crossing the World's Busiest Border

Author: Jessica Cordova

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 9781124067650

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This thesis investigates the meaning of being a border crosser in the Tijuana-San Diego region. It presents a brief history of this region and a discussion of pertinent theory. The personal narratives of transborder commuters shaped and guided the research. This thesis focuses on the narratives of six transborder commuters and one person who was raised undocumented in the San Diego-Tijuana region but has crossed borders throughout her life. This work parts from the notion that 'border performativity, ' theorized by Nancy A. Wonders, plays a central role in the meaning of being a border crosser. The border is performed everyday on commuters at the border crossing. Commuters also participate in border performativity in the everyday, mundane things that they go through in attempting to cross the border. The notion of 'superación, ' bettering oneself, is central to the search for freedom of mobility. This thesis also argues that in order to discuss border crossing it is necessary to discuss the differential access to crossing the border. Lastly, this thesis interrogates how people situate themselves and construct their culture in the border region. This thesis does not purport to present a full representation of transborder commuters but rather what it means to be a border crosser for the people I interviewed.

Crossing Borders
Crossing Borders

Author: Ali Noorani

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2022-03-28

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 1538143518

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Advance praise from public figures José Andrés, Al Franken, Jonathan Blitzer of The New Yorker, and Russell Moore of Christianity Today. Find the moving stories of American immigrants and their journeys in Ali Noorani’s chronicle. In an era when immigration on a global scale defines the fears and aspirations of Americans, Crossing Borders presents the complexities of migration through the stories of families fleeing violence and poverty, the government and nongovernmental organizations helping or hindering their progress, and the American communities receiving them. Ali Noorani, who has spent years building bridges between immigrants and their often conservative communities, takes readers on a journey to Honduras, Ciudad Juarez in Mexico, and Texas, meeting migrants and the organizations and people that help them on both sides of the border. He reports from the inside on why families make the heart-wrenching decision to leave home. Going beyond the polemical, partisan debate, Noorani offers sensitive insights and real solutions. Crossing Borders will appeal to a broad audience of concerned citizens across the political spectrum, faith communities, policymakers, and immigrants themselves.

Border Jumping and Migration Control in Southern Africa
Border Jumping and Migration Control in Southern Africa

Author: Francis Musoni

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2020-04-07

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 0253047161

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With the end of apartheid rule in South Africa and the ongoing economic crisis in Zimbabwe, the border between these Southern African countries has become one of the busiest inland ports of entry in the world. As border crossers wait for clearance, crime, violence, and illegal entries have become rampant. Francis Musoni observes that border jumping has become a way of life for many of those who live on both sides of the Limpopo River and he explores the reasons for this, including searches for better paying jobs and access to food and clothing at affordable prices. Musoni sets these actions into a framework of illegality. He considers how countries have failed to secure their borders, why passports are denied to travelers, and how border jumping has become a phenomenon with a long history, especially in Africa. Musoni emphasizes cross-border travelers' active participation in the making of this history and how clandestine mobility has presented opportunity and creative possibilities for those who are willing to take the risk.

Crossing Borders
Crossing Borders

Author: Mimi Sheller

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-10-18

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 1351714384

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Crossing Borders examines how translocal, transnational, and internal borders of various kinds distribute uneven capabilities for moving, dwelling, and circulating. The contributors offer nuanced understandings of the politics of mobility across various kinds of borders and forms of cultural circulation, showing how people experience and practice crossing many different borders. Several chapters draw on interviews and ethnographic methods to analyze transnational migration, while others focus on material relations and cultural practices. Rather than the usual narrative of mobility as a kind of freedom, border crossing emerges here as an instrumental practice for building translocal livelihoods, a tactic for simply getting by, and a material practice potentially generating new forms of future sociality. Ultimately these diverse perspectives on crossing borders offer new ways to think about the mobility of political relations and the politics of mobile relations in a world of growing circulation across borders, but also flexible forms of (re)bordering. This book was originally published as a special issue of Mobilities.

Cross-Border Management
Cross-Border Management

Author: Rongxing Guo

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-01-05

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 3662451565

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This book presents a new approach to management in an increasingly interactive world. In this context, the use of the word “new” has two meanings. The first relates to a new definition of borders (which are natural, institutional, functional, or mixed); the second concerns the fact that the book applies (and, where necessary, develops) analytical tools, methods and models that are different from those used in other similar books. The objectives of this book are: to clarify whether existing management theories and methods can be effectively applied in an entity (which can be defined as a sovereign country, a region, a community, a culture, or a firm) as the latter increasingly interacts with the rest of the world; to develop qualitative and quantitative methods to help leaders make optimal decisions for their entity and, at the same time, to maximize the positive (or minimize the negative) effects of those decisions on the rest of the world; and to design workable cross-border cooperation plans and conflict-management schemes that allow policy-makers to better cope with the challenges and problems posed by our increasingly interactive world.

Passing
Passing

Author: Rihan Yeh

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 022651191X

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Passing: Two Publics in a Mexican Border City is an ethnography of the public sphere in Tijuana based on intensive fieldwork in 2006 and 2007 and numerous subsequent brief visits. Its central contribution is to develop an ethnographic method for apprehending how the border marks collective subjectivities in ways that illuminate the basic impasses of publicness in general. She examines major communicative genres such as print news, street demonstrations, internet forums, and popular ballads, as well as a variety of minor genres: family discussions, thank-you notes at religious shrines, police encounters, workplace banters, and personal interview. The question of collective subjectivity that she traces through all these examples is particularly live, politically and socially, at the border, where US legal categories forcefully shape the logics of class exclusion-and thus national membership and democratic possibility-that are general in Mexico.

God's Heart Has No Borders
God's Heart Has No Borders

Author: Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2008-09-02

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 0520942442

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In this timely and compelling account of the contribution to immigrant rights made by religious activists in post-1965 and post-9/11 America, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo provides a comprehensive, close-up view of how Muslim, Christian, and Jewish groups are working to counter xenophobia. Against the hysteria prevalent in today's media, in which immigrants are often painted as a drain on the public coffers, inherently unassimilable, or an outright threat to national security, Hondagneu-Sotelo finds the intersection between migration and religion and calls attention to quieter voices, those dedicated to securing the human dignity of newcomers. Based on years of fieldwork conducted in California's major centers as well as in Chicago, this book considers Muslim Americans defending their civil liberties after 9/11, Christian activists responding to death and violence at the U.S-Mexico border, and Christian and Jewish clergy defending the labor rights of Latino immigrants. At a time when much attention has been given to religious fundamentalism and its capacity to incite violent conflict, God's Heart Has No Borders revises our understanding of the role of religion in social movements and demonstrates the nonviolent power of religious groups to address social injustices.

Border Games
Border Games

Author: Peter Andreas

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9780801487569

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Yet the unprecedented buildup of border policing has taken place in an era otherwise defined by the opening of the border, most notably through NAFTA. This contrast creates a borderless economy with a barricaded border.".