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    Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move

    By Rob Ryan

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    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 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. 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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherVerso US
    Release dateOct 11, 2016
    ISBN9781784784737
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    Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move
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    Rob Ryan

    REECE JONES is a professor of geography at the University of Hawai‘i. He is the author of Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move and Border Walls: Security and the War on Terror in the United States, India, and Israel.

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      This is a thought-provoking book advocating the right of people to move freely in search of a better life. Current border conflicts around the world are discussed and an overview is provided of how international borders were shaped through recent history. The last portion of the book takes a look at how international borders have contributed to ongoing issues such as world poverty and climate change.