Global Borderlands: In recent years, the borderlands that crisscross the world have become zones of increased surveillance and state anxiety. Local inhabitants experience this heightened visibility in different ways, as they have done during earlier phases of state scrutiny. There is an urgent need to study and compare such borderland dynamics from the perspectives of the social sciences and the humanities.

This series provides a platform for innovative research in this field. It welcomes volumes that explore the social, cultural, geographic, economic, historical, archaeological, and multi-species dimensions of border-making—and unmaking—by states, local and migrant communities, and mobile ideas and commodities. The focus can be on the borderlands that encircle each national territory, but also on borderlands within or beyond a state territory. Borderland studies may highlight land borders, but also borders in rivers, the sea, or the air. In addition, they may also present research on social borderlands that result from border making but are not static: transborder ethnic networks, religious communities, transhumance, and diasporas.