Bordering no longer happens only at the borderline separating two sovereign states, but rather through a wide range of practices and decisions that occur in multiple locations within and beyond the state's territory. Nevertheless, it is too simplistic to suggest that borders are everywhere, since this view fails to acknowledge that particular sites are significant nodes where border work is done. Similarly, border work is more likely to be done by particular people than others. This book investigates the diffusion of bordering narratives and practices by asking 'who borders and how?' Placing the Border in Everyday Life complicates the connection between borders and sovereign states by identifying the individuals and organizations that engage in border work at a range of scales and places. This edited volume includes contributions from major international scholars in the field of border studies and allied disciplines who analyze where and why border work is done. By combining a new theorization of border work beyond the state with rich empirical case studies, this book makes a ground-breaking contribution to the study of borders and the state in the era of globalization.

Chapter 1 Where is the Border?, Corey Johnson, Reece Jones; Theorizing the Border in Everyday Life; Chapter 2 The Vernacularization of Borders, Anthony Cooper, Chris Perkins, Chris Rumford; Chapter 3 Policing Borders, Policing Bodies, Mathew Coleman, Angela Stuesse; Border Work by Non-Traditional Actors Near the Border; Chapter 4 Locating the Border in Boundary Bay, Emma S. Norman; Chapter 5 A Basis for Bordering, Kenneth D. Madsen; Chapter 6 Whose Border? Border Talk and Discursive Governance of the Salween River-Border, Vanessa Lamb; Chapter 7 Crossing Lines, Crossed by Lines, Judith Miggelbrink; Border Work by Non-Traditional Actors Away from the Border; Chapter 8 Symbolic Bordering and the Securitization of Identity Markers in Nigeria's Ethno-Religiously Segregated City of Jos, Yakubu Joseph, Rainer Rothfuss; Chapter 9 Border Wars, Reece Jones; Chapter 10 Latin American Borders on the Lookout, Anne-Laure Amilhat Szary; Chapter 11 "No Place Like Home", Jennifer Turner; Chapter 12 Conclusion, Corey Johnson;