Why Borders Matter
Why Borders Matter Western society has become estranged from the borders and social boundaries that have for centuries given meaning to human experience. Some go so far as to argue for 'No Borders'.…
Specifikacia Why Borders Matter
Why Borders Matter
Western society has become estranged from the borders and social boundaries that have for centuries given meaning to human experience. Some go so far as to argue for 'No Borders'. This book argues that the controversy surrounding mass migration and physical borders runs in parallel and is closely connected to the debates surrounding the symbolic boundaries people need to guide on the issues of everyday life.Numerous commentators claim that borders have become irrelevant in the age of mass migration and globalisation.
The traditional boundaries that separate adults from children, or men from women, or humans from animals, or citizens and non-citizens, or the private from the public sphere are often condemned as arbitrary, unnatural, and even unjust. And it is not merely the boundaries that divide nations that are under attack! Paradoxically, the attempt to alter or abolish