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Contemporary geographies of exclusion II: lessons from Iowa
Steve Herbert*
Department of Geography/Law, Societies, and Justice Program, University of Washington, Box 353550, Smith Hall 408, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: skherb{at}u.washington.edu.
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Processes of exclusion both presuppose and reinforce boundaries. Yet the realities of globalization mean that such political and cultural boundaries are regularly and increasingly transgressed. Cross-border traffic is simultaneously encouraged and feared; migrants who are welcomed because of their labor are often shunned because of their difference. Because of the tensions generated by the inevitable co-mingling in everyday space between insiders and outsiders, the politics of immigration regulation are unusually fraught in the contemporary period. For this reason, the line between foreign relations and domestic politics is increasingly blurred. As states become more robust in their boundary enforcement practices, the political plight of migrants becomes more perilous. The recent literature on exclusion understandably emphasizes the politics and practices of immigration policing, with broader lessons that I use this review to elucidate.
First published on May 21, 2009, doi:10.1177/0309132508104999
Progress in Human Geography 2009;33:825.
A more recent version of this article appeared on December 1, 2009
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