Through Metal Fences: Material Mobility and the Politics of Transnationality at Borders

Mobilities

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 70-89

  Sur, Malini ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

'Jungle passports'; Border fences; India Bangladesh border; Material mobility; Sovereign indulgence; Temporality; Transnationality; Violence

Indexed keywords

MOBILITY; POLITICAL BORDER; POLITICAL BOUNDARY; POLITICAL CONFLICT; SOVEREIGNTY; TERRITORIAL DISPUTE; VIOLENCE;

BANGLADESH; INDIA;

EID: 84874193032     PISSN: 17450101     EISSN: 1745011X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2012.747778     Document Type: Article

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