Violent borders : refugees and the right to move

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Label

Violent borders : refugees and the right to move

Title remainder

refugees and the right to move

Statement of responsibility

Reece Jones

Creator

• trueJones, Reece

Author

• trueJones, Reece

Subject

• Emigration and immigration -- Government policy
• Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects
• Freedom of movement -- Social aspects
• trueFreedom to travel
• trueImmigration and emigration -- Government policy
• trueImmigration and emigration -- Social aspects
• trueImmigration and emigration law
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations
• trueRefugees -- Government policy
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration
• trueBorder security -- Social aspects

Language

eng

Summary

"Forty 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. 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 migfrant trails of the world, documenting the billions of dollars spent on border security projects, and their dire consequences for the majority of the people in the world. While the poor are restricted by the lottery of birth to slums and the aftershocks of decolonization, the wealthy travel without constraint, exploiting pools of cheap labour and lax environmental regulations. With the growth of borders and resource enclosures, argues Jones, the deaths of migrants in search of a better life are intimately connected to climate change, environmental degradation, and the persistence of global wealth inequality."--Book jacket

Tone

• trueThought-provoking

Writing style

• truePersuasive
• trueRichly detailed

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

325

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography