Description - Violent Borders by Reece Jones
Following Brexit and the election of Donald Trump, the world has appeared to enter a new age of tightening borders. But even before these cataclysmic events, forty thousand people had already died trying to cross international borders in the past decade, including high-profile deaths along the shores of Europe and between the US and Mexico.
Reece Jones argues that these deaths are not exceptional, but rather the result of state attempts to contain populations and control access to resources and opportunities. “We may live in an era of globalization,” he writes, “but much of the world is increasingly focused on limiting the free movement of people.”
In Violent Borders, Jones crosses the migrant trails of the world, documenting the billions of dollars spent on border security projects and their dire consequences for countless millions. While the poor are restricted by the lottery of birth to slum dwellings in the aftershocks of decolonization, the wealthy travel without constraint, exploiting pools of cheap labor and lax environmental regulations.
Newly updated with a discussion of Brexit and the Trump administration, Violent Borders is a carefully-wrought exploration of how the growth of borders is exacerbating climate change, wealth inequality and migrant deaths.
Buy Violent Borders by Reece Jones from Australia's Online Independent Bookstore, BooksDirect.
Other Editions - Violent Borders by Reece Jones
A Preview for this title is currently not available.
Available to order, ships in 10-12 business days
White Borders: The History of Race and Immigration in the United States from Chinese Exclusion to the Border Wall
Nobody Is Protected: How the Border Patrol Became the Most Dangerous Police Force in the United States
