Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I: Knowledge, Power, Surveillance -- 1. Detention of Foreigners, States of Exception, and the Social Practices of Control of the Banopticon -- 2. Struggling with (Il)Legality: The Indeterminate Functioning of Malaysia's Borders for Asylum Seekers, Refugees, and Stateless Persons -- 3. The Foreigner in the Security Continuum: Judicial Resistance in the United Kingdom -- 4. Ambivalent Categories: Hill Tribes and Illegal Migrants in Thailand -- PART II: Borderpanic: Representing Migrants and Borders -- 5. Danger Happens at the Border -- 6. Violence, Subversion, and Creativity in the Thai-Malaysian Borderland -- PART III: Rethinking Borderscapes: Mapping Hidden Geographies -- 7. The Poetry of Boundaries -- 8. The Sites of the Sino-Burmese and Thai-Burmese Boundaries: Transpositions between the Conceptual and Life Worlds -- 9. A Pacific Zone? (In)Security, Sovereignty, and Stories of the Pacific Borderscape -- PART IV: Rethinking Borderscapes: The New Political -- 10. "Temporary Shelter Areas" and the Paradox of Perceptibility: Imperceptible Naked-Karens in the Thai-Burmese Border Zones -- 11. Locating Political Space through Time: Asylum and Excision in Australia -- 12. Border's Capture: Insurrectional Politics, Border-Crossing Humans, and the New Political -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.