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. 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. 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. “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.” Reece Jones Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move Kindle Edition by Reece Jones (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 106 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 9.99 Read with Our Free App Hardcover 21.44 34 Used from 1.49 13 New from 17.88 2 Collectible from 19. 4 Subtitle: Borders, law and capitalism Review of. Professor of Geography and Environment, University of Hawaii - Cited by 4331 - Human Geography - Borders - Geopolitics - Political Geography. 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. Violent borders : refugees and the right to move Author: Reece Jones (Author) Edition: View all formats and editions Publisher: Verso, London, 2016. 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. Date: 5-2020 Book/source title: Reading Reece Joness Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move. 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.

Violent Borders by Reece Jones