Violent Borders: Refugees & The Right to Move

Violent Borders

By Reece 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 and argues that 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, and that 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. Read more.