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Taylor & Francis Ltd Border Frictions : Gender, Generation And Technology On The Frontline by Karine Cote-Boucher
How did Canadian border officers come to think of themselves as a police of the border? This book tells the story of the shift to law enforcement in Canadian border control. From the 1990s onward, it traces the transformation of a customs organization into a border-policing agency._x000D_
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Border Frictions investigates how considerable political efforts and state resources have made bordering a matter of security and trade facilitation best managed with surveillance technologies. Based on interviews with border officers, ethnographic work carried out in the vicinity of land border ports of entry and policy analysis, this book illuminates features seldom re.show more