☆ Border Vigils: Keeping Migrants Out of the Rich World ¾ Jeremy Harding - Border Vigils: Keeping Migrants Out of the Rich World, Border Vigils Keeping Migrants Out of the Rich World Ours is an era marked by extraordinary human migrations with some million people alive today having moved from their country of origin The political reaction in Europe and the United States has b
- Title: Border Vigils: Keeping Migrants Out of the Rich World
- Author: Jeremy Harding
- ISBN: 9781781680636
- Page: 454
- Format: Paperback
☆ Border Vigils: Keeping Migrants Out of the Rich World ¾ Jeremy Harding, Border Vigils: Keeping Migrants Out of the Rich World, Jeremy Harding, Border Vigils Keeping Migrants Out of the Rich World Ours is an era marked by extraordinary human migrations with some 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 s ☆ Border Vigils: Keeping Migrants Out of the Rich World ¾ Jeremy Harding - Border Vigils: Keeping Migrants Out of the Rich World, Border Vigils Keeping Migrants Out of the Rich World Ours is an era marked by extraordinary human migrations with some million people alive today having moved from their country of origin The political reaction in Europe and the United States has b
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☆ Border Vigils: Keeping Migrants Out of the Rich World ¾ Jeremy Harding
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Jeremy Harding
If you re interested in a good, informative book that contextualizes the contemporary crisis in migration within recent history, this is the book for you The initial chapters are strongest and represent Harding s journalism best later chapters tend to wander, unmoored by a governing thesis It is this lack that hampers the book most in fact I do not see the general case that Harding is making within the broader argument about migrants and borders details are fleeting Nevertheless, there are many [...]
This presented a great mixture of interview data and hard numerical data I always find studies of this type to be effective in their arguments as it s harder to refute something that is both qualitative and quantitative you can t just say it s one person s view or blame ideas on emotions or a statistical anomaly.It was also refreshing to read about borders beside the U.S Mexico line Putting U.S immigration policy into perspective through a look at the E.U and Africa helped to make some of the l [...]
I reviewed this together with Matthew Carr s Fortress Europe The article can be read on the website of Migrants Rights Network at migrantsrights blog
Seemed very out of date journalism, but some interesting migrant experiences.