Small But Dynamic

正A bustling Tibetan town's growth is fueled by border trade By Zan JifangIt's not easy to drive to Zham,a small town in Tibet Autonomous Region and near the border between China and Nepal.It is located in a valley,and visitors must follow a winding mountain road for hours to get there.The road is well built but its narrow and often sees vehicles beyond its capacity—trucks,tourist buses,off-road vehicles and cars can grind to a near     

Embedded rubber sandals: trade and gifts across the Sino–Kyrgyz border

How does a group of Uyghur traders from a village in Atush (Xinjiang, China) end up with a stock of unsellable rubber sandals in Kadamjay (Batken, Kyrgyzstan), and why don’t they compete according to market principles? This article explores the social investments of the traders and their families, and reveals their behaviour to be rational, both economically and socially. It illuminates the business and daily life of Uyghur traders in southern Kyrgyzstan, an environment that is increasingly challenging and uncertain. The examination of exchange relations between their households explains why the traders cooperate as they do and also why they do not cooperate more. Economic rationales and social obligations prove to be mutually embedded. This insight expands and deepens a nascent analytical approach that recognizes social motivation for economic activities in Central Asia alongside undeniable economic incentives. This approach has much to gain from being more explicitly reconnected to classical anthropological theories of gift giving.     

中印边境自卫反击战我军政治工作经验及启示

在中印边境自卫反击战中,我军政治工作发挥了重要作用,针对当时复杂的国际环境、作战背景与战争残酷性等不利条件,我军政治工作适时采取相应对策,形成了边境自卫反击作战政治工作新特点.为打赢未来高技术条件下的边境反侵略战争,我们应借鉴中印边境反击作战政治工作经验,把政治工作全局性和时效性与快反能力相结合,把政治工作顽强性与对抗性相结合,注重对敌特、民族分裂分子的打击力度,加强政治工作方法与手段的硬件建设.     

From Russia,With Love

正Harbin capitalizes on a century of imported culture to become an unorthodox tourist destination Beautiful melodies echo throughout a newly refurbished synagogue in Harbin,capital of northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province on the border with Russia,on an August evening.A small concert is being held by four female Russian violinists.The composi-tions they play include both Chinese songs,     

非法出入边境活动的原因及防控对策研究

当前,边境地区因经济活动的快速发展而导致了非法出入边境活动的急增。非法出入边境活动的原因复杂,手段多样,特征明显。对此,应在加大宣传的基础上加强活动防控,开展专项斗争,同时加强相关领域的国际合作。     

Introduction: citizenship as inhabitance? Migrant housing squats versus institutional accommodation

ABSTRACT

This special issue focuses on migrants’ self-organised strategies in relation to housing in Europe, namely the collective squatting of vacant buildings and land. In particular, the contributions to this special issue differentiate between shelter provided in state-run or humanitarian camps and squatted homes. Migrants squats are an essential part of the ‘corridors of solidarity’ that are being created throughout Europe, where grassroots social movements engaged in anti-racist, anarchist and anti-authoritarian politics coalesce with migrants in devising non-institutional responses to the violence of border regimes. In these spaces contentious politics and everyday social reproduction uproot racist and xenophobic regimes. The struggles emerging in these spaces disrupt host-guest relations, which often perpetuate state-imposed hierarchies and humanitarian disciplining technologies. Moreover, the solidarities and collaborations between undocumented and documented activists challenge hitherto prevailing notions of citizenship and social movements, as well as current articulations of the common. These radical spaces enable possibilities for inhabitance beyond, against and within citizenship, which do not only reverse forms of exclusion and repression, but produce ungovernable resources, alliances and subjectivities that prefigure more livable spaces for all. Therefore, these struggles are interpreted here as forms of commoning, as they constitute autonomous socio-political infrastructures and networks of solidarity beyond and against the state and humanitarian provision     

边防刑事执法中隐匿身份侦查法律规制研究

随着隐匿身份侦查措施写入《中华人民共和国刑事诉讼法》,以法律形式确定下来,已成为一种新型的侦查措施.近年来,边防部刑事执法部门有效地打击了边境地区贩毒、偷渡等犯罪案件,展现了其刑事侦查能力.因此,为充分发挥隐匿身份侦查措施在边防刑事执法中的效用,结合隐匿身份侦查的定义和主要形式,提出了边防刑事执法中隐匿身份侦查的法律规制.     

公安边防部队法制教育的若干问题研究

法制教育是部队经常性思想教育工作的重要内容之一,能够增强官兵法纪意识、预防腐败犯罪。文中从公安边防部队法制教育工作的特殊性入手,分析了公安边防部队法制教育中存在的问题,并对公安边防部队法制教育工作提出建设性意见。     

试论夜暗条件下的公安边防执法战斗

由于公安边防战斗突然、政策性强、行动受限等原因,各类违法分子经常利用夜暗条件,进行藏匿、逃窜甚至武力对抗,给公安边防部门有效地实施及时、正确、合理的战斗指挥和实施搜索、观察、机动和接近攻击目标带来了很大困难,对执法作战人员的安全也构成威胁。本文旨在通过对公安边防执法战斗的类型、夜暗条件对公安边防执法战斗的基本要求以及公安边防部门在夜暗条件下的执法战斗中应该注意的问题方面的探讨,以期对提高公安边防部队在夜暗条件下打击边境犯罪的能力。     

Constructing the EU’s high-tech borders: FRONTEX and dual-use drones for border management

FRONTEX has highlighted Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) as affordable and efficient capabilities for securing the EU’s vast frontiers in order to further upgrade them into smart technological borders. In this regard, this article examines the EU’s strategy and rationalisations to develop dual-use technologies such as aerial surveillance drones for border management. By drawing on critical security and technology studies and by focusing on their functional technological efficiency, the article argues that drones are being normalised in a technological regime of exclusion at the border-zone. It further contends that high-end technologies such as drones introduce a military bias as security enablers in border surveillance and as a panacea for the consequences of failed policies to manage irregular migration. A closer examination of several EU-endorsed drone projects reveals a pragmatic and industry-driven approach to border security, underlining the evolving homogenisation between internal and external security and the imminent “dronisation” of European borders.