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. 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. 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. Buy Violent Borders by Reece Jones from Waterstones today Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25. “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.”
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 policedįorty 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. White Borders: The History of Race and Immigration in the United States from Chinese Exclusion to the Border Wall: Reece Jones.
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