Illicit flows and criminal things : states, borders, and the other side of globalization / edited by Willem van Schendel and Itty Abraham. - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2005. - viii, 266 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. - Tracking globalization .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : the making of illicitness / Itty Abraham and Willem van Schendel -- Spaces of engagement : how borderlands, illicit flows, and territorial states interlock / Willem van Schendel -- The rumor of trafficking : border controls, illegal migration, and the sovereignty of the nation-state / Diana Wong -- Talking like a state : drugs, borders, and the language of control / Paul Gootenberg -- "Here, even legislators chew them" : coca leaves and identity politics in northern Argentina / Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui -- Seeing the state like a migrant : why so many non-criminals break immigration laws / David Kyle and Christina A. Siracusa -- Criminality and the global diamond trade : a methodological case study / Ian Smillie -- Small arms, cattle raiding, and borderlands : the Ilemi triangle / Kenneth I. Simala and Maurice Amutabi.

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