Empires And Walls: Globalization, Migration, And Colonial Domination

Mohammad A. Chaichian (Ph.D., 1986) is an architect, urban planner, and Professor of Sociology at Mount Mercy University. He is the author of White Racism on the Western Urban Frontier (Africa World Press, 2006), and Town and Country in the Middle East (Lexington, 2009).

• List of Photos, Figures and TablesForeword by David FasenfestPreface1. Walls, Borders and Imperial FormationsBorders, Walls and GlobalizationPART I: THE IMPERIAL WALLS THAT ARE NO LONGER AROUND2. Hadrian’s Wall: an Ill-Fated Strategy for Tribal Management in Roman BritainGeopolitics of Hadrian’s WallWhy Did Hadrian Build the Wall?Hadrian’s Wall: Beginning of the End?3. Red Snake: The Great Wall of Gorgan, IranWas the Red Snake a defensive Wall?The Wall’s ArchitectureThe Wall’s associated hydraulic structures and functionsThe Red Snake as a Yet Unsolved Enigma4. Clash of Empires: Prelude to the Berlin WallThe Rise and Fall of the German EmpirePreparing Germans for Occupation, 1945-1947Emergence of the Two Germanys under Occupation, 1947-1949Post-War Dependent Development of a Divided and Occupied Germany5. Build the Wall: The Two German Economies are Now United!The Wall’s ArchitectureWas the Wall a Sign of East Germany’s Weakness?Concluding RemarksPART II: ANTI-IMPERIALIST WALLS6. Dismantling the Defensive Wall of the Colonized: The Islamic Hijab in FranceThe French Colonial Presence in North AfricaFrench Republicanism and the Problematic “Collective Identity”Muslim Immigrants in FranceSocial Spheres and the ‘Maghrebi’ Muslim IdentityHijab as the Last Defensive Tool of the ColonizedConclusionPART III: NEO-COLONIAL WALLS7. An Empire in the Making: American Colonial Interests South of the BorderMigration of Mexicans to the United StatesMaquiladoras, NAFTA, and the Evolution of Twin Cities along the U.S.-Mexico BorderThe Border is No Longer: Long Live the Border!8. The Great Offensive Wall of Mexico: Border Blues Erecting the Offensive Barrier, or ‘The Great Wall of Mexico”The Fence/Wall ArchitectureIs the Border Fence/Wall Effective? Notes from the Field9. Israel and Palestine: a Settler Colony is BornIsrael: The Birth of a NationAdvancement of Zionist Settler Colonies in Palestine under British OccupationZionist Colonization and the Land Question in Palestine10. Bantustans, Maquiladoras, and the Separation Barrier Israeli StyleIsrael’s First Expansion Phase, 1947-1949Israel’s Second Expansion Phase, 1949-1967Israel’s Third Expansion Phase, 1967-1991The Second Intifada: Prelude to the Wall/FenceIsrael’s Final Expansionist Offensive: The Separation BarrierThe Separation Barrier’s ArchitectureThe Two Economies Are Now Fully Integrated: Erect the Separation Barrier!A “Villa in the Jungle”? From Jabotinsky’s “Iron Wall’’ to the Separation Barrier11. Epilogue: Conceptualizing Walls and borders—“Globalization from Within”Post-Wall BerlinReferencesIndex