Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on FinancePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Border security
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Border Insecurity, Take Three
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on FinancePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Border security
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Border Insecurity, Take Three :.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on FinancePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Border Insecurity, Take Three
Author: United States. CongressPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781983848384
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Border insecurity, take three : open and unmonitored : hearing before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, September 27, 2007.
Border Insecurity, Take Three
Author: United States SenatePublisher:
ISBN: 9781694187918
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Border insecurity, take three: open and unmonitored: hearing before the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, September 27, 2007.
Border Management Modernization
Author: Gerard McLindenPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 0821385976
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Border clearance processes by customs and other agencies are among the most important and problematic links in the global supply chain. Delays and costs at the border undermine a country’s competitiveness, either by taxing imported inputs with deadweight inefficiencies or by adding costs and reducing the competitiveness of exports. This book provides a practical guide to assist policy makers, administrators, and border management professionals with information and advice on how to improve border management systems, procedures, and institutions.
Border Insecurity
Author: Sylvia LongmirePublisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1137443731
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
When confronted with the challenges of border security and illegal immigration, government officials are fond of saying that our borders have never been as safe and secure as they are now. But ranchers in the borderlands of Arizona and Texas fear for their lands, their cattle, their homes, and sometimes their lives due to the human and drug smuggling traffic that regularly crosses their property. Who is right? What does a secure border actually look like? More importantly, is a secure border a realistic goal for the United States? Border Insecurity examines all the aspects of the challenge—and thriving industry—of trying to keep terrorists, drug smugglers, and illegal immigrants from entering the United States across our land borders. It looks at on-the-ground issues and controversies like the border fence, the usefulness of technology, shifts in the connection between illegal immigration and drug smuggling, and the potential for terrorists and drug cartels to work together. Border Insecurity also delves into how the border debate itself is part of why the government has failed to improve information sharing and why this is necessary to establish a clear and comprehensive border security strategy.
Borders, Fences and Walls
Author: Assoc Prof Elisabeth ValletPublisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1472429680
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the question remains ‘Do good fences still make good neighbours’? Since the Great Wall of China, the Antonine Wall, built in Scotland to support Hadrian's Wall, the Roman ‘Limes’ or the Danevirk fence, the ‘wall’ has been a constant in the protection of defined entities claiming sovereignty, East and West. But is the wall more than an historical relict for the management of borders? In recent years, the wall has been given renewed vigour in North America, particularly along the U.S.-Mexico border, and in Israel-Palestine. But the success of these new walls in the development of friendly and orderly relations between nations (or indeed, within nations) remains unclear. What role does the wall play in the development of security and insecurity? Do walls contribute to a sense of insecurity as much as they assuage fears and create a sense of security for those 'behind the line'? Exactly what kind of security is associated with border walls? This book explores the issue of how the return of the border fences and walls as a political tool may be symptomatic of a new era in border studies and international relations. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, this volume examines problems that include security issues ; the recurrence and/or decline of the wall; wall discourses ; legal approaches to the wall; the ‘wall industry’ and border technology, as well as their symbolism, role, objectives and efficiency.
Borders, Fences and Walls
Author: Élisabeth ValletInformal cross-border trade in Africa: How much? Why? And what impact?
Author: Bouet, AntoinePublisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Informal cross-border trade (ICBT) represents a prominent phenomenon in Africa. Several studies suggest that for certain products and countries, the value of informal trade may meet or even exceed the value of formal trade. This paper provides a review of existing efforts to measure informal trade. We list 18 initiatives aimed at measuring ICBT in Africa. The paper also summarizes discussions conducted with many stakeholders in Africa between December 2016 and May 2018 regarding the measurement, the determinants, and the implications of ICBT. The methodologies used to measure ICBT in Africa differ widely, but they do confirm that informal trade in Africa is both sizeable and volatile. Both evidence on the determinants of ICBT and discussions with stakeholders suggest that policies should aim to reduce the existing costs associated with formal trade and provide positive incentives for traders and producers to move into the formal economy in order to avoid the loss of economic potential stemming from informal trade.
Border Walls
Author: Reece JonesPublisher: Zed Books Ltd.
ISBN: 1848138261
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
*** Winner of the 2013 Julian Minghi Outstanding Research Award presented at the American Association of Geographers annual meeting *** Two decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall, why are leading democracies like the United States, India, and Israel building massive walls and fences on their borders? Despite predictions of a borderless world through globalization, these three countries alone have built an astonishing total of 5,700 kilometers of security barriers. In this groundbreaking work, Reece Jones analyzes how these controversial border security projects were justified in their respective countries, what consequences these physical barriers have on the lives of those living in these newly securitized spaces, and what long-term effects the hardening of political borders will have in these societies and globally. Border Walls is a bold, important intervention that demonstrates that the exclusion and violence necessary to secure the borders of the modern state often undermine the very ideals of freedom and democracy the barriers are meant to protect.