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Examines the "dark side" of globalization.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Making of Illicitness Itty Abraham and Willem van Schendel
1. Spaces of Engagement: How Borderlands, Illicit Flows, and Territorial States Interlock Willem van Schendel
2. The Rumor of Trafficking: Border Controls, Illegal Migration, and the Sovereignty of the Nation-State Diana Wong
3. Talking Like a State: Drugs, Borders, and the Language of Control Paul Gootenberg
4. "Here, Even Legislators Chew Them": Coca Leaves and Identity Politics in Northern Argentina Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui
5. Seeing the State Like a Migrant: Why So Many Non-criminals Break Immigration Laws David Kyle and Christina A. Siracusa
6. Criminality and the Global Diamond Trade: A Methodological Case Study Ian Smillie
7. Small Arms, Cattle Raiding, and Borderlands: The Ilemi Triangle Kenneth I. Simala and Maurice Amutabi
Consolidated Bibliography
Contributors
Index

About the Author

Willem van Schendel is Professor of Modern Asian History at the University of Amsterdam and head of the Asia Department of the International Institute of Social History. His publications include The Bengal Borderland: Beyond State and Nation in South Asia.

Itty Abraham is Director of the South Asia Institute and Associate Professor of Government and Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is author of The Making of the Indian Atomic Bomb: Science, Secrecy, and the Postcolonial State and co-editor of Southeast Asian Diasporas.