A Companion to Border Studies offers a broad overview of the field that has evolved over the last few decades into an exploration of how nations and cultural identities are being transformed by their shifting borders, and by transnational and global forces. A Companion to Border Studies introduces an exciting and expanding field of interdisciplinary research, through the writing of an international array of scholars, from diverse perspectives that include anthropology, development studies, geography, history, political science and sociology. List of Figures and Table viiiNotes on Contributors ix1 Borders and Border Studies 1Thomas M. Wilson and Hastings DonnanPart I Sovereignty, Territory and Governance 272 Partition 29Brendan O'Leary3 Culture Theory and the US–Mexico Border 48Josiah McC. Heyman4 The African Union Border Programme in European Comparative Perspective 66Anthony I. Asiwaju5 European Politics of Borders, Border Symbolism and Cross-Border Cooperation 83James Wesley Scott6 Securing Borders in Europe and North America 100Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly7 Border Regimes, the Circulation of Violence and the Neo-authoritarian Turn 119John BornemanPart II States, Nations and Empires 1378 Borders in the New Imperialism 139James Anderson9 Contested States, Frontiers and Cities 158Liam O'Dowd10 The State, Hegemony and the Historical British-US Border 177Allan K. McDougall and Lisa Philips11 Nations, Nationalism and "Borderization" in the Southern Cone 194Alejandro Grimson12 Debordering and Rebordering the United Kingdom 214Cathal McCall13 "Swarming" at the Frontiers of France, 1870–1885 230Olivier Thomas Kramsch14 Borders and Conflict Resolution 249David NewmanPart III Security, Order and Disorder 26715 Chaos and Order along the (Former) Iron Curtain 269Mathijs Pelkmans16 Border Security as Late-Capitalist "Fix" 283Brenda Chalfin17 Identity, the State and Borderline Disorder 301Dan Rabinowitz18 African Boundaries and the New Capitalist Frontier 318Timothy Raeymaekers19 Bandits, Borderlands and Opium Wars in Afghanistan 332Jonathan Goodhand20 Biosecurity, Quarantine and Life across the Border 354Alan Smart and Josephine Smart21 Permeabilities, Ecology and Geopolitical Boundaries 371Hilary CunninghamPart IV Displacement, Emplacement and Mobility 38722 Borders and the Rhythms of Displacement, Emplacement and Mobility 389Pamela Ballinger23 Remapping Borders 405Henk van Houtum24 From Border Policing to Internal Immigration Control in the United States 419Mathew Coleman25 Labor Migration, Traffi cking and Border Controls 438Michele Ford and Lenore Lyons26 Spatial Strategies for Rebordering Human Migration at Sea 455Alison Mountz and Nancy Hiemstra27 "B/ordering" and Biopolitics in Central Asia 473Nick Megoran28 Border, Scene and Obscene 492Nicholas De GenovaPart V Space, Performance and Practice 50529 Border Show Business and Performing States 507David B. Coplan30 Performativity and the Eventfulness of Bordering Practices 522Robert J. Kaiser31 Reconceptualizing the Space of the Mexico–US Borderline 538Robert R. Alvarez, Jr32 Border Towns and Cities in Comparative Perspective 557Paul Nugent33 A Sense of Border 573Sarah GreenIndex 593