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720 1 _aTrubeta, Sevasti
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245 0 0 _aMedicalising borders
_bSelection, containment and quarantine since 1800
260 _aManchester
_bManchester University Press
_c2021
300 _a1 online resource (344 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aRethinking borders
506 0 _aFree-to-read
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520 _aThe subject of this volume is situated at the point of intersection of the studies of medicalisation and border studies. The authors discuss borders as sites where human mobility has been and is being controlled by biomedical means, both historically and in the present. Three types of border control technologies for preventing the spread of disease are considered: quarantine, containment and the biomedical selection of migrants and refugees. These different types of border control technologies are not exclusive of one another, nor do they necessarily lead to total restrictions on movement. Instead of a simplifying logic of exclusion-inclusion, this volume turns the focus towards the multilayered entanglement of medical regimes in attempts at managing the porosity of the borders. State and institutional responses to the COVID-19 pandemic provide evidence for the topicality of such attempts. Using interdisciplinary approaches, the chapters scrutinise ways in which concerns and policies of disease prevention shift or multiply borders, as well as connecting or disconnecting places. The authors address several questions: to what degree has containment for medical reasons operated as a bordering process in different historical periods including the classical quarantine in the Mediterranean and south-eastern Europe, in the Nazi-era, and in postcolonial UK? Moreover, do understandings of disease and the policies for selecting migrants and refugees draw on both border regimes and humanitarianism, and what factors put limits on the technologies of selection?
540 _aAll rights reserved
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546 _aEnglish
650 7 _aHistory of medicine
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650 7 _aMedical anthropology
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650 7 _aMigration, immigration & emigration
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650 7 _aSocial & cultural anthropology, ethnography
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653 _aquarantine; containment; biomedical selection; COVID-19; camp; racialisation; migration; refugees; medicalised borders; health security
720 1 _aPromitzer, Christian
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720 1 _aPromitzer, Christian
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720 1 _aTrubeta, Sevasti
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720 1 _aWeindling, Paul
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720 1 _aWeindling, Paul
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793 0 _aDOAB Library.
856 4 0 _uhttps://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/70873
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_zFree-to-read: DOAB: description of the publication
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