Bulletin n. 1/2008
May 2008
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Cuttitta Paolo
    Le monde-frontière. Le contrôle de l’immigration dans l’espace globalisé
    in Cultures & Conflits , numero 68, hiver ,  2007 ,  60-84
    Far from marking the end of borders, the globalization era enlightens us actually more about the continuous process by which borders are redefined in their shape and in the operational modalities. This is most obvious in the field of immigration control where territorial power operates through a double modality. On the one hand, it has a direct effect on territorial borders, diversifying and relocating actions in space: the constitutive points of the borderline are duplicated, multiplicated and projected bellow and beyond the line itself, thus producing an effect of either introvert or extravert flexibilisation of the border. The border is thus transformed from a fixed one to a mobile one, from a material one to an immaterial one and from a linear one to a zonal one. On the other hand, territorial power vests itself in the sphere of the borders, borders represented by the status and personal conditions of migrants, by not only delineating the different status already existing but by multiplying them through the remodelling of their outlines and the differentiation of their contents. Free text available on-line: http://www.conflits.org/index5593.html.
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