VIOLENT BORDERS: REFUGEES AND THE RIGHT TO MOVE (VERSO) (PB)

Forty thousand people have died trying to cross international borders in the past decade. While the poor are restricted by the lottery of birth to slum dwellings in the aftershocks of decolonization, the wealthy travel without constraint, exploiting pools of cheap labour and lax environmental regulations. In Violent Borders, Reece Jones crosses the migrant trails of the world, documenting the billions of dollars spent on border security projects and their dire consequences for countless millions.