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Transnational politics at the edges of sovereignty: social movements, crossings and the state at the US–Mexico border
Author(s) -
Cunningham Hilary
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
global networks
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.685
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1471-0374
pISSN - 1470-2266
DOI - 10.1111/1471-0374.00021
Subject(s) - state (computer science) , politics , sovereignty , globalization , political science , social movement , political economy , period (music) , movement (music) , gender studies , sociology , law , physics , algorithm , computer science , acoustics , philosophy , aesthetics
This article documents the history of border crossings among a group of social movement activists located in southern Arizona. By comparing two types of US–Mexico border crossings separated ten years apart, the article explores how political groups become ‘transnationalized’ and in relation to what kinds of ‘states’. By contrasting the shift from a state‐centric movement to a transnational coalition, the case study analyses why, in the later period, political activists were no longer able to identify the same kind of state. In chronicling the disappearance of one kind of state formation and the emergence of a transnational one, this research argues that globalization—rather than simply reflecting a decline of the nation state—is a process entailing not only new forms of transnational political activism but also new forms of the state.