Rethinking Authority in China’s Border Regime : : Regulating the Irregular / / Franziska Plümmer.

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• VerfasserIn: Plümmer, Franziska,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: New Mobilities in Asia ; 9
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (318 p.)

In the 21st century, governments around the globe are faced with the question on how to tackle new migratory mobilities. Governments increasingly become aware of irregular immigration and are forced to re-negotiate the dilemma of open but secure borders. Rethinking Authority in China’s Border Regime: Regulating the Irregular investigates the Chinese government’s response to this phenomenon. Hence, this book presents a comprehensive analysis of the Chinese border regime. It explores the regulatory framework of border mobility in China by analysing laws, institutions, and discourses as part of an ethnographic border regime analysis. It argues that the Chinese state deliberately creates ‘zones of exception’ along its border. In these zones, local governments function as ‘scalar managers’ that establish cross-border relations to facilitate cross-border mobility and create local migration systems that build on their own notion of legality by issuing locally valid border documents. The book presents an empirically rich story of how border politics are implemented and theoretically contributes to debates on territoriality and sovereignty as well as to the question of how authority is exerted through border management. Empirically, the analysis builds on two case studies at the Sino-Myanmar and Sino-North Korean borders to illustrate how local practices are embedded in multiscalar mobility regulation including regional organizations such as the Greater Mekong Subregion and the Greater Tumen Initiative.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Maps, Tables, and Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Border Authority and Zoning Technologies -- 3 Graduated Citizenship and Social Control in China’s Immigration System -- 4 Making Border Politics : State Actors & Security in the Chinese Border Regime -- 5 Re-Scaling Territorial Authority within Regional Organizations -- 6 Local Bordering Practices and Zoning Technologies -- 7 Conclusion — Authority in the Chinese Border Regime -- References -- Appendix A: Institutional Architecture of Yunnan Province in the GMS -- Appendix B: Institutional Architecture of Jilin Province in the GTI -- Glossary -- Index