9781781680636-1781680639-Border Vigils: Keeping Migrants Out of the Rich World

Border Vigils: Keeping Migrants Out of the Rich World

ISBN-13: 9781781680636
ISBN-10: 1781680639
Edition: 1
Author: Jeremy Harding
Publication date: 2012
Publisher: Verso
Format: Paperback 176 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781781680636
ISBN-10: 1781680639
Edition: 1
Author: Jeremy Harding
Publication date: 2012
Publisher: Verso
Format: Paperback 176 pages

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Border Vigils: Keeping Migrants Out of the Rich World (ISBN-13: 9781781680636 and ISBN-10: 1781680639), written by authors Jeremy Harding, was published by Verso in 2012. With an overall rating of 4.4 stars, it's a notable title among other Emigration & Immigration (Social Sciences) books. You can easily purchase or rent Border Vigils: Keeping Migrants Out of the Rich World (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Emigration & Immigration books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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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, Jeremy Harding draws haunting portraits of the migrants – and anti-immigrant zealots – he encountered in his investigations in Europe and on the US–Mexico border. Harding’s painstaking research and global perspective identify the common characteristics of immigration policy across the rich world and raise pressing questions about the future of national boundaries and universal values.

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