Borderless Worlds for Whom?

Anssi Paasi is Professor of Geography at the University of Oulu, Finland, and the Director of the RELATE Center of Excellence (Academy of Finland). Eeva-Kaisa Prokkola is Senior Research Fellow at the Geography Research Unit, University of Oulu, Finland, and a Docent in Human Geography and Border Studies at the University of Eastern Finland.Jarkko Saarinen is Professor of Geography in the University of Oulu, Finland, and Distinguished Visiting Professor (Sustainability Management) at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. Kaj Zimmerbauer is Docent at the University of Oulu, Finland, and Scientific Coordinator in the RELATE Center of Excellence (Academy of Finland).

• Introduction: borders, ethics, and mobilitiesAnssi Paasi, Eeva-Kaisa Prokkola, Jarkko Saarinen, and Kaj ZimmerbauerPart I: Borders in a borderless world Borderless worlds and beyond: challenging the state-centric cartographiesAnssi Paasi Imagining a borderless worldHarald Bauder Borders, distance, politicsPaolo Novak Part II: Politics of inclusion and exclusion ‘Borderless’ Europe and Brexit: young European migrant accounts of media uses and moralitiesAija Lulle Everyday bordering, healthcare, and the politics of belonging in contemporary BritainKathryn Cassidy 'Delay and Neglect': the everyday geopolitics of humanitarian borders Elisa Pascucci, Jouni Häkli, and Kirsi Pauliina Kallio Asylum reception and the politicization of national identity in Finland: a gender perspective Eeva-Kaisa ProkkolaPart III: Contested mobilities and encounters9. Tourism, border politics, and the fault lines of mobilityRaoul V. Bianchi and Marcus L. Stephenson10. Commodification of contested borderscapes for tourism development: viability, community representation, and equity of relic Iron Curtain and Sudetenland heritage tourism landscapesArie Stoffelen and Dominique Vanneste11. Contested mobilities across the Hong Kong-Shenzhen border: the case of Sheung ShuiJ. J. ZhangPart IV: Borders, security, politics12. Trade, Trump, Security, and Ethics: The Canada-US Border in Continental PerspectiveHeather N. Nicol and Karen G. Everett13. Ontological (in)security: the EU’s bordering dilemma and neighbourhoodJussi P. Laine and James W. Scott14. An ethical code for cross-border governance: what does the European Union say on the ethics of cross-border cooperation?Elisabetta Nadalutti15. The role of ‘nature’ at the EU maritime borders: agency, ethics, and accountabilityEstela Schindel16. Afterword: borders are there to be crossed (but not by everybody)Noel B. Salazar

"This book could not be more timely as immigration becomes the issue that could break the European Union and border anxieties pervade the world of states. The book focuses on the neglected ethical dilemmas of borders: from the ways migrants are categorized as refugees and ‘economic’ migrants, for example, to the fact that tourism, one of the world's major industries by value-added, depends on easy border crossing even as others are excluded, and the idea of a world without borders as being necessarily more just than the one we presently have. If populist politicians would read more, including this book, they might rant less and reason more." – Professor John Agnew, UCLA, USA