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.
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