![]() ![]() ![]() This chapter intends to establish some frameworks for the book by unpacking the notion of borders, not only from territorial and geographical perspectives, but also the borders created within cultural, social and economic spheres. Southeast Asian States seem to imagine their communities as exclusive, with certain categories of people being excluded, especially those who are considered different and those who cross (inter)national borders. Because of this imagination that a nation (-state) is ‘inherently exclusive’. It is imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign’. ![]() Benedict Anderson (1991) suggested ‘a Nation-state is an imagined political community. ![]()
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