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DESCRIPTION:Discussing his new book, Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move, 
 from Verso Books.\n\nViolent Borders: Refugees and the Right to 
 Move\n\nfrom Verso Books\n\nA major new exploration of the refugee crisis, 
 focusing on how borders are formed and policed.\n\nForty 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.\n\nReece 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. "We may live in an era 
 of globalization," he writes, "but much of the world is increasingly 
 focused on limiting the free movement of people."\n\nIn Violent Borders, 
 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. 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 labor and lax environmental 
 regulations. With the growth of borders and resource enclosures, the deaths 
 of migrants in search of a better life are intimately connected to climate 
 change, environmental degradation, and the growth of global wealth 
 inequality.\n\nReece Jones is a Professor of Geography at the University of 
 Hawaii in Manoa, and the author of Border Walls: Security and the War on 
 Terror in the United States, India, and Israel.\n\nIngrid Rojas Contreras 
 is the 2014 recipient of the Mary Tanenbaum Literary Award in Nonfiction 
 from the San Francisco Foundation. She has received awards and support from 
 Bread Loaf, Hedgebrook, the San Francisco Writer's Grotto, Djerassi Artist 
 Residency, National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures, and the San 
 Francisco Arts Commission. Currently, she is working on a memoir about her 
 grandfather, a medicine man from Colombia who it was said could move 
 clouds.\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/04/10/18798204.php
SUMMARY:Reece Jones in conversation with Ingrid Rojas Contreras
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore. 261 Columbus Avenue, San Francisco, CA, 94133.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/04/10/18798204.php
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