Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move with Reece Jones

Host Jo Ann Hardesty speaks with Reece Jones, a geographer at the University of Hawaii and an expert on international border walls and the refugee crisis, Reece is in Portland to launch his book, Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move, at Powell’s books. Violent Borders (Verso) is a major new exploration of the refugee crisis, focusing on how borders are formed and policed. Forty thousand people died trying to cross international borders in the past decade, with the high-profile deaths along the shores of Europe only accounting for half of the grisly total. Jones argues that these deaths are not exceptional, but rather the result of state attempts to contain populations and control access to resources and opportunities.