migration – Schwarze Risse Buchladen

Violent Borders

risse_admin — Wed, 03 May 2023 13:44:59 +0000

An “engaging and lucid analysis” of the refugee crisis, focusing on how borders are formed, policed—and used to inflict violence on the poor (Arun Kundnani, author of The Muslims Are Coming) 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.

The Minor on the Move: Doing Cosmopolitanisms

risse_admin — Wed, 03 May 2023 13:44:55 +0000

No Wall They Can Build: A Guide to Borders and Immigration Across North America

risse_admin — Wed, 03 May 2023 13:44:48 +0000

International Migration

risse_admin — Wed, 03 May 2023 13:44:45 +0000

The author puts the arguments in favour of free mobility across national borders, and counters those against. His conclusions are clear and profound, free international migration can lessen the huge material inequalities and human injustices.

Empire of Borders

risse_admin — Wed, 03 May 2023 13:44:41 +0000

The United States is outsourcing its border patrol abroad—and essentially expanding its borders in the process The twenty-first century has witnessed the rapid hardening of international borders. Security, surveillance, and militarization are widening the chasm between those who travel where they please and those whose movements are restricted. But that is only part of the story. As journalist Todd Miller reveals in Empire of Borders, the nature of US borders has changed. These boundaries have effectively expanded thousands of miles outside of US territory to encircle not simply American land but Washington’s interests. Resources, training, and agents from the United States infiltrate the Caribbean and Central America; they reach across the Canadian border; and they go even farther afield, enforcing the division between Global South and North. The highly publicized focus on a wall between the United States and Mexico misses the bigger picture of strengthening border enforcement around the world. Empire of Borders is a tremendous work of narrative investigative journalism that traces the rise of this border regime. It delves into the practices of “extreme vetting,” which raise the possibility of “ideological” tests and cyber-policing for migrants and visitors, a level of scrutiny that threatens fundamental freedoms and allows, once again, for America’s security concerns to infringe upon the sovereign rights of other nations. In Syria, Guatemala, Kenya, Palestine, Mexico, the Philippines, and elsewhere, Miller finds that borders aren’t making the world safe—they are the frontline in a global war against the poor.

Breach (Peirene Now!, Band 1)

risse_admin — Wed, 03 May 2023 13:44:37 +0000

Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor (a Social Text book) (English Edition)

risse_admin — Wed, 03 May 2023 13:44:37 +0000