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The Spanish–Moroccan border complex: Processes of geopolitical, functional and symbolic rebordering

Xavier Ferrer-Gallardo
- 01 Mar 2008 - 
- Vol. 27, Iss: 3, pp 301-321
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In this article, the major aspects of the SpanisheMoroccan rebordering since Spain joined the European Union in 1986 are analyzed, focusing on the geopolitical, functional, and symbolic aspects.
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This article is published in Political Geography.The article was published on 2008-03-01. It has received 121 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: European union.

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Selected Conceptual Issues in Border Studies

TL;DR: This paper revisited a number of major themes and concepts that have been important for the development of border studies in recent years and investigated emerging research perspectives that appear to be important drivers of conceptual change from the perspective of human geography.
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Re-bordering the neighbourhood: Europe’s emerging geographies of non-accession integration:

TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight the ways in which emerging models of migration management are producing new geographies of the European Union's borders that complicate notions of a tightly bounded and easily delineated "Schengen space" or "Fortress Europe".
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Geography, Globalization, and the Problematic of Area Studies

TL;DR: In this paper, the status of geographical knowledge in the aftermath of the critique of orientalism and associated postcolonial departures, debates about language and translation, and attention to the situatedness and operation of perspective in geographical imaginations are discussed.
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Performative Regional (dis)Integration: Transnational Markets, Mobile Commodities, and Bordered North–South Differences

TL;DR: In this article, the authors start from the assumption that border crossing is particularly salient in the context of commodity chains which connect the Global South with the Global North and take the example of one single agrocommodity, the tomato, and two border regions (Morocco-EU and Mexico-USA).
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Dreaming of Seamless Borders: ICTs and the Pre-Emptive Governance of Mobility in Europe

TL;DR: A growing academic literature explains the digitisation of border controls as an instance of the post-9/11 securitisation of migration policy and explores how "pre-emptive mobility governance" works.
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Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism

TL;DR: In this paper, Anderson examines the creation and global spread of the 'imagined communities' of nationality and explores the processes that created these communities: the territorialisation of religious faiths, the decline of antique kingship, the interaction between capitalism and print, the development of vernacular languages-of-state, and changing conceptions of time.
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Fences and neighbours in the postmodern world: boundary narratives in political geography

TL;DR: In the tradition of political geography, boundary analysis has focused on the international scale, since international boundaries provide perhaps the... as discussed by the authors, and state boundaries have constituted a major topic in political geography.
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Bordering, ordering and othering

TL;DR: In a recent special issue of TESG as mentioned in this paper, the authors discuss the issue of border through immobilising people and the making of places for economic or political strangers, the transnational places.
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