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Empire of Borders - The Expansion of the US Border around the World (Hardcover)
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Empire of Borders - The Expansion of the US Border around the World (Hardcover)
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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 U.S. borders has changed. These boundaries have
effectively expanded thousands of miles outside of U.S. 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 the 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-especially not in the midst of an ever-worsening climate
crisis. They are, undoubtedly, the frontline in a global war
against the poor.
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