Reece Jones, Violent Borders. Refugees and the Right to Move, London: Verso, 2017, ISBN 978-1-78478-474-4, 212 pages
The literature on refugees’ experiences has been enriched in recent years as we witnessed a refugees’ crisis that has not been seen since WWII. Only the Syrian civil war displaced more than five million civilians, while, according to an UNCHR report published in June 2018, wars, violence and persec...
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| description | The literature on refugees’ experiences has been enriched in recent years as we witnessed a refugees’ crisis that has not been seen since WWII. Only the Syrian civil war displaced more than five million civilians, while, according to an UNCHR report published in June 2018, wars, violence and persecution uprooted a record number of 16.2 million people across the world in 2017. The book briefly reviewed here, Violent Borders. Refugees and the Right to Move, investigates the tumultuous times we live in, ones in which millions of people leave their homes in search of better opportunities, exposing themselves to dangers, encountering violence to the borders and new walls rising in their way. The author argues that building walls and securing borders does not stop migration, but makes it more dangerous: “…borders continue to kill. Even with the massive amount of attention paid to the issue and the vast funds expended to stop migration, people continue to move in 2016 and the year shattered the record of the number of border deaths, with over 7800 people losing their lives simply trying to go from one place to another”. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7a056c6a80c14d0c989340dc19dbef612022-12-22T03:05:16ZengUniversity of Oradea, Research Centre on Identity and Migration Studies-RCIMIJournal of Identity and Migration Studies1843-56101843-56102018-11-01122133135Reece Jones, Violent Borders. Refugees and the Right to Move, London: Verso, 2017, ISBN 978-1-78478-474-4, 212 pagesCristina MATIUTAThe literature on refugees’ experiences has been enriched in recent years as we witnessed a refugees’ crisis that has not been seen since WWII. Only the Syrian civil war displaced more than five million civilians, while, according to an UNCHR report published in June 2018, wars, violence and persecution uprooted a record number of 16.2 million people across the world in 2017. The book briefly reviewed here, Violent Borders. Refugees and the Right to Move, investigates the tumultuous times we live in, ones in which millions of people leave their homes in search of better opportunities, exposing themselves to dangers, encountering violence to the borders and new walls rising in their way. The author argues that building walls and securing borders does not stop migration, but makes it more dangerous: “…borders continue to kill. Even with the massive amount of attention paid to the issue and the vast funds expended to stop migration, people continue to move in 2016 and the year shattered the record of the number of border deaths, with over 7800 people losing their lives simply trying to go from one place to another”.http://www.e-migration.ro/jims/Vol12_No2_2018/JIMS_Vol12_No2_2018_pp_133_135_MATIUTA.pdfrefugee |
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| title | Reece Jones, Violent Borders. Refugees and the Right to Move, London: Verso, 2017, ISBN 978-1-78478-474-4, 212 pages |
| title_full | Reece Jones, Violent Borders. Refugees and the Right to Move, London: Verso, 2017, ISBN 978-1-78478-474-4, 212 pages |
| title_fullStr | Reece Jones, Violent Borders. Refugees and the Right to Move, London: Verso, 2017, ISBN 978-1-78478-474-4, 212 pages |
| title_full_unstemmed | Reece Jones, Violent Borders. Refugees and the Right to Move, London: Verso, 2017, ISBN 978-1-78478-474-4, 212 pages |
| title_short | Reece Jones, Violent Borders. Refugees and the Right to Move, London: Verso, 2017, ISBN 978-1-78478-474-4, 212 pages |
| title_sort | reece jones violent borders refugees and the right to move london verso 2017 isbn 978 1 78478 474 4 212 pages |
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