RT Article
T1 Borders as penal transplants: Control of territory, mobility and illegality in West Africa
JF Theoretical criminology
VO 25
IS 3
SP 474
OP 492
A1 Stambøl, Eva Magdalena
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1767142528
AB This article explores an increasingly significant trend in crime and mobility control that has received scant criminological attention: border externalization, specifically scrutinizing land border security-building by international actors in West Africa. Going beyond the usual focus on migration in border studies, it develops a criminologically grounded theorization of the border as a political technology of crime control and its relationship to the state. This is done by arguing that borders, theorized as ‘penal transplants’ embodying specific (western) visions of state, political power, social control/order and territoriality, are transformed and often distorted when performed in ‘heterarchical’ contexts in the global South. Further, empirically based concepts from ‘the periphery’ are suggested to enrich border criminology, broadening its geographical scope and spatial awareness.
K1 Transnational Crime
K1 Sahel
K1 penal transplant
K1 Mobility
K1 Border security
DO 10.1177/1362480621995457