Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move

This engaging analysis of the refugee crisis explores how borders are formed, policed—and used to inflict violence on the poor.

“In an era of terrorism, global inequality, and rising political tension over migration, Jones argues that tight border controls make the world worse, not better.” —Boston Globe

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 Europea...