Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move
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| Rating | : | 4.59 (662 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1784784745 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Reece Jones is a Professor of Geography at the University of Hawaii in Manoa, and the author of Border Walls: Security and the War on Terror in the United States, India, and Israel
With the growth of borders and resource enclosures, the deaths of migrants in search of a better life are intimately connected to climate change, environmental degradation, and the growth of global wealth inequality.. “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. 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. A major new exploration of the refugee crisis, focusing on how borders are formed and policedForty thousand people died trying to cross international borders in the past decade, with the high-profile deaths along the shores of Europe only accounting for half of the grisly total
Worddancer Redux said The author seeks to show that the existence of borders produces the violence that surrounds them.I don't think he fully succeeds. The author "disputes the idea that borders are a natural part of the human world" and believes that "the existence of the border itself produces the violence that surrounds it." Political borders "are not the result of a transparent sorting of historical peoples into their own territories" but rather "an efficient system for maintaining political control of an area through agreements and documents that are backed up with the threat of violence." He sees borders as fundamentally violent, and thus embraces and employs a "broader and more nuanced definition of viole. Phelps Gates said Timely and informative. An example of geographical studies at its best. It's one of those books that manages to cover both the specific events happening on the ground and the broader issues of theory and policy that underlie them. It would be an understatement to say that it's a wideranging study: the field of view ranges from (for example) the experiences of a single family in the West Bank to an overview of the world-wide effects of globalization, including NAFTA, the TPP, and other developments. And the book covers both the historical and the present-day situation: as the author expl. Thought provoking Debra This book is thought provoking on an important topic that easy to be blind to if you live in most of the US. The first several chapters specifically drive home the point that no one does dangerous border crossings unless they have to, and he does an excellent job of drawing you into the plight of refugees. He does a good job questioning policy assumptions and pointing out flaws in policies and political moves made to skirt the issue.On other other hand, I wasn't totally comfortable with his premise that rich nations only want to maintain their wealth and that's w
It firmly, and convincingly, maintains that borders are nothing more than state tools for maintaining control of resources and populations, the beneficiaries of which are often the rich while those who suffer its intrinsically violent wrath are the poor who seek safety within its walls … An excellent read.” —Arab Weekly. But who has that right and if it matters how they entered is our all-consuming question. And Jones has the facts to back up this radical assertion … This book is a valuable antidote to the xenophobia sweep