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Border Vigils: Keeping Migrants Out of the Rich World
Jeremy Harding
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Description for Border Vigils: Keeping Migrants Out of the Rich World
Paperback. Searing reportage and analysis of the new politics of immigration in both Europe and America Num Pages: 160 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 1D; 1KBB; JFFN; JFSL; JPVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 149 x 196 x 14. Weight in Grams: 198.
Ours is an era marked by extraordinary human migrations, with some 200 million people alive today having moved from their country of origin. The political reaction in Europe and the United States has been to raise the drawbridge: immigrant workers are needed, but no longer welcome. So migrants die in trucks or drown en route; they are murdered in smuggling operations or ruthlessly exploited in illegal businesses that make it impossible for the abused to seek police help. More than 15,000 people have died in the last twenty years trying to circumvent European entry restrictions.
In this beautifully written book, ... Read more
Ours is an era marked by extraordinary human migrations, with some 200 million people alive today having moved from their country of origin. The political reaction in Europe and the United States has been to raise the drawbridge: immigrant workers are needed, but no longer welcome. So migrants die in trucks or drown en route; they are murdered in smuggling operations or ruthlessly exploited in illegal businesses that make it impossible for the abused to seek police help. More than 15,000 people have died in the last twenty years trying to circumvent European entry restrictions.
In this beautifully written book, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Verso Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781680636
SKU
V9781781680636
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-2
About Jeremy Harding
Jeremy Harding is a contributing editor at the London Review of Books. His books include The Uninvited: Refugees at the Rich Man's Gate, Small Wars, Small Mercies, and Mother Country.
Reviews for Border Vigils: Keeping Migrants Out of the Rich World
[A] tightly-coiled, unpredictable book ... Harding makes his ambitious, continent-crossing arguments in economical, sometimes elegant, usually understated prose.
Andy Beckett
Guardian
Beyond its investigative insight, Border Vigils is also a groundbreaking chronicle of migrant voices rarely heard. Ranging from the southern shores of Italy and the backstreets of England to the embattled US-Mexico front line, Harding's brilliant ... Read more
Andy Beckett
Guardian
Beyond its investigative insight, Border Vigils is also a groundbreaking chronicle of migrant voices rarely heard. Ranging from the southern shores of Italy and the backstreets of England to the embattled US-Mexico front line, Harding's brilliant ... Read more