Introduction 11. The European Union: The World's Deadliest Border 122. The US-Mexico Border: Rise of a Militarized Zone 293. The Global Border Regime 484. The Global Poor 705. Maps, Hedges, and Fences: Enclosing the Commonsand Bounding the Seas 896. Bounding Wages, Goods, and Workers 1197. Borders, Climate Change, and the Environment 140Conclusion: Movement as a Political Act 162
A major new exploration of the refugee crisis, focusing on how borders are formed and policed
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.
I'd like an endless supply of Reece Jones' Violent Borders to hand
out to all the people I meet who flirt with an anti-refugee
sensibility. This book is the antidote to the world of walls that
we live in, an argument for a world of humanity.
*Vijay Prashad, author of The Poorer Nations: A Possible History
of the Global South*
A much-needed counter to a thousand newspaper columns calling on us
to secure our borders, Reece Jones' Violent Borders goes beyond the
headlines to look at the deeper causes of the migration crisis.
Borders, Jones convincingly argues, are a means of inflicting
violence on poor people. This is an engaging and lucid analysis of
a much misunderstood issue.
*Arun Kundnani, author of The Muslims Are Coming: Islamophobia,
Extremism, and the Domestic War on Terror*
From early modern land enclosures through Westphalian state
formation to the current fortification of the US-Mexico frontier,
Reece Jones explains what a boundary is, and how national
sovereignty is being reinforced, in an age of capital mobility, by
the crackdown on human movement across borders.
*Jeremy Harding, author of Border Vigils: Keeping Migrants Out
of the Rich World*
With the building of border walls and the deaths of migrants much
in the news, this work is both timely and necessarily
provocative.
*Kirkus*
The institutions of the modern state are essentially violent ... a
fierce polemicist
*New Statesman*
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 (recommended books for fall 2016)*
The breadth and spread of Jones's historical examples and empirical
case studies make for stimulating and engaging reading.
*Current History*
Reece Jones, a professor of Geography at the University of Hawaii
at Manoa, believes that borders are essentially tools of violence
used to constrict and sometimes entirely stop flows of humanity.
And Jones has the facts to back up this radical assertion...This
book is a valuable antidote to the xenophobia sweeping the
privileged nations of the Northern Hemisphere.
*East Bay Express*
Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move goes beyond most
considerations of refugee history to consider how new borders are
formed and policed, and how state attempts to contain and control
populations and allocate resources have resulted in many limits to
peoples' movements around the world...A powerful survey that should
be a 'must' for any social issues collection.
*Midwest Book Review*
Violent Borders puts questions of movement and intrastate
inequality in a historical perspective that once glimpsed cannot be
unseen. 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*
Promise[s] to take your arguments from the general to the specific
... The United States is one of a few countries whose immigration
philosophy is jus solis or right of land, which means that if you
spend enough time on U.S. territory you have a right to
citizenship. But who has that right and if it matters how they
entered is our all-consuming question. In Violent Borders, Jones
provides plenty of examples of how these semantic arguments lead to
inequality, isolation, racism, and institutional loss of liberty
for entire groups of people.
*KQED*
Though the movement of people and the tightening of borders
continue to be hotly debated throughout the world, Jones's book is
successful in providing careful historical and present-day examples
for his analysis and thought-provoking arguments about the need to
soften borders.
*Choice*
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