Reece Jones. (2016). Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move. Verso Books.

Reece Jones. 2016. Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move. Verso Books.

Reece Jones, Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move. Verso Books, 2016.

Reece Jones. Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move. Verso Books, 2016.

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This engaging analysis of the refugee crisis explores how borders are formed, policed—and used to inflict violence on the poor.
“In an era of terrorism, global inequality, and rising political tension over migration, Jones argues that tight border controls make the world worse, not better.” —Boston Globe
Forty thousand people have died trying to cross between countries in the past decade, and yet international borders only continue to harden. The United Kingdom has voted to leave the European Union; the United States elected a president who campaigned on building a wall; while elsewhere, the popularity of right-wing antimigrant nationalist political parties is surging.
Reece Jones argues that the West has helped bring about the deaths of countless migrants, as states attempt to contain populations and limit 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 the dire consequences for countless millions. While the poor are restricted by the lottery of birth to slum dwellings in the ailing decolonized world, 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.

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     "Tear down this wall!" was Ronald Reagan's ringing challenge to Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987. Now, a geographer calls for more drastic action, arguing that border walls everywhere should come down.In his earlier book, Border Walls: Security and the War on Terror in the United States, India, and Israel (2012), Jones (Univ. of Hawaii, Manoa) explored three specific border walls; here, he takes a broader and longer view. In the first half of the book, the author looks at the causes and consequences of global migration, visiting borders around the world and telling the stories of people who have experienced their violent reality. The second half takes a historical approach, as Jones examines other types of enclosures on land and sea and borders as part of a long-term effort to control the movement of the poor. He views borders as producers of violence, creating and enforcing economic disparities and ultimately causing the deaths of thousands and damaging the environment. Since 9/11, barriers have been justified in the name of security, but Jones argues that they have actually been driven by the wall-building state's desire to protect its wealth and the cultural practices of its citizens. At borders, notes the author, mobility is violently restricted as migrants are funneled into dangerous crossing points, and the security infrastructure leads to thousands of deaths annually. In addition to the cost in human lives, Jones cites damage to the environment; dividing the world into sovereign territories that place the interests of certain citizens above those of humanity as a whole has contributed to the global failure to address climate change. In his conclusion, the author idealistically calls for opening borders to allow free movement and establishing rules for working conditions and environmental protection. With the building of border walls and the deaths of migrants much in the news, this work is both timely and necessarily provocative. COPYRIGHT(1) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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     August 15, 2016
     Tear down this wall! was Ronald Reagans ringing challenge to Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987. Now, a geographer calls for more drastic action, arguing that border walls everywhere should come down.In his earlier book, Border Walls: Security and the War on Terror in the United States, India, and Israel (2012), Jones (Univ. of Hawaii, Manoa) explored three specific border walls; here, he takes a broader and longer view. In the first half of the book, the author looks at the causes and consequences of global migration, visiting borders around the world and telling the stories of people who have experienced their violent reality. The second half takes a historical approach, as Jones examines other types of enclosures on land and sea and borders as part of a long-term effort to control the movement of the poor. He views borders as producers of violence, creating and enforcing economic disparities and ultimately causing the deaths of thousands and damaging the environment. Since 9/11, barriers have been justified in the name of security, but Jones argues that they have actually been driven by the wall-building states desire to protect its wealth and the cultural practices of its citizens. At borders, notes the author, mobility is violently restricted as migrants are funneled into dangerous crossing points, and the security infrastructure leads to thousands of deaths annually. In addition to the cost in human lives, Jones cites damage to the environment; dividing the world into sovereign territories that place the interests of certain citizens above those of humanity as a whole has contributed to the global failure to address climate change. In his conclusion, the author idealistically calls for opening borders to allow free movement and establishing rules for working conditions and environmental protection. With the building of border walls and the deaths of migrants much in the news, this work is both timely and necessarily provocative.

     COPYRIGHT(2016) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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“In an era of terrorism, global inequality, and rising political tension over migration, Jones argues that tight border controls make the world worse, not better.” —Boston Globe
Forty thousand people have died trying to cross between countries in the past decade, and yet international borders only continue to harden. The United Kingdom has voted to leave the European Union; the United States elected a president who campaigned on building a wall; while elsewhere, the popularity of right-wing antimigrant nationalist political parties is surging.
Reece Jones argues that the West has helped bring about the deaths of countless migrants, as states attempt to contain populations and limit access to resources and opportunities. “We may live in an era of globalization,” he writes, “but much of...

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