This book analyzes the political and material conditions driving contemporary border control policies and discusses the processes that mediate popular and official understandings of border-related fatalities.

Autorentext
Author Leanne Weber: Leanne Weber Larkins Senior Research Fellow at Monash University, Australia. She is co-editor of Borders, Mobility and Technologies of Control and has published extensively on the detention of asylum seekers, the policing of migration and the nature of contemporary borders. Author Sharon Pickering: Sharon Pickering is Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Monash University, Australia. She is the Editor of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology.

Inhalt
List of Tables, Figures and Images Acknowledgements List of Acronyms Introduction: Globalization and Borders PART I: Border Autopsy: Examining Contemporary Borders Charting the Global Frontier Counting and Discounting Border Deaths Accounting for Deaths at the Border PART II: Border Inquest: Misadventure or Death by Policy? Structural Violence Suspicious Deaths Suicide and Self-harm PART III: From Finding Truth to Preventing Border Harm The Ambiguous Architecture of Risk Conclusion: Preventing Death by Sovereignty Notes Bibliography Index