Bordered on violence books

Id like an endless supply of reece jones violent borders to hand out to all the people i meet who flirt with an antirefugee sensibility. Violent borders is about the inherent violence of borders, how weve learned to take arbitrary boundaries for granted, and a picture of how the world could be without them. The book also demonstrated how such policies establish regimes of violence and exclusion. There are books available about border relations, human and drug trafficking, narcos drug dealers, border violence and so much more.

Nearly 40,000 people have already lost their lives south of the border, and now the cartels have moved their operations north and into our cities. The result is that borders have become increasingly violent, and that the many resources that are invested in smoothing the passage for the. Refugees and the right to move by reece jones isbn. My first response is, give teens a little more credit for their.

This is an engaging and lucid analysis of a much misunderstood issue. Ive heard people blame tv, books, and video games for todays youth predilection for sex, foul language, and violence. The drug war has claimed thousands of lives in mexico and now the violence has crossed the border into the united states. Nearly 2 million schoolage children live in south sudan, but more than half dont attend school. School violence can take on many different faces, from bullying to school shootings. My experiences are unique in that i have seen what many others have not. Reece jones is an associate professor in the department of geography at the university of hawaii at manoa. Mailing address counterpunch po box 228 petrolia, ca 95558 telephone 1707 6293683.

Chacon and davis attack the question by revealing the disturbing, centuriesold context for the cross border workingclass, and the resurgence of reactionary antiimmigrant politics and racist vigilante violence. Hernandez weaves together corridos, fiction, government documents, maps, and other sources to examine geographic, territorial, and historical burdens that have led to a complicit endorsement of border violence. Forty thousand people died trying to cross international borders in. The hunger games by suzanne collins, catching fire by suzanne collins, a clockwork orange by anthony burgess, the hate u give. Essays on life amid the narco violence, editors sarah cortez and sergio troncoso help us to over the past dozen years, our beloved frontera has gone from a delightful pastiche of cultures and languages intermingling in promising, positive ways with undercurrents of dreams deferred to a battle. Borders, jones convincingly argues, are a means of inflicting violence on poor people. This lesson provides books on a variety of school violence to educate. In this sensitive book about border violence, staudt provides illuminating answers to perplexing questions long asked by people around the world about recent grotesque crimes against women in the notorious city of ciudad juarez. Refugees and the right to move, by reece jones is an engaging.

Islamophobia, extremism, and the domestic war on terror. Following these first explorations, his new book violent borders rather. There are other books on heroin use in the united states, but dreamland is unique in its detailed portrait of the illegal crossborder business and the lives that it has touched. Id recommend this to anyone pissed off about anti immigrant policy and ideology. In south sudan, a struggle to get, and keep, kids in. While i am not a border or foreign relations expert, i grew up on the border and lived there for over 30 years. The officer sued deray mckesson, a black lives matter activist, claiming, without providing details, that mr.