Cross Cultural Solidarity

History; in the Service of Solidarity

Border Walls Around the World

Books

Michel Agier: Borderlands: Towards an Anthropology of the Cosmopolitan Condition.

Peter Andreas & Timothy Snyder: The Wall Around the West: State Borders and Immigration Controls in North America and Europe.

Andrew Burridge, Jenna M. Loyd, & Matt Mitchelson (editors.) Beyond Walls and Cages: Prisons, Borders, and Global Crisis.

Marcello Di Cintio: Walls: Travels Along the Barricades.

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

Adam McKeown: Melancholy Order: Asian Migration and the Globalization of Borders.

Articles

Ruben Andersson & David Keen: The West’s Obsession With Border Security Is Breeding Instability: In the name of fighting illegal immigration, the EU, the United States, and Australia are emboldening authoritarian regimes, fueling abuses and corruption, and stoking intolerance at home.

Tanya Golash-Boza & Douglas A. Parker: Human Rights in a Globalizing World: Who Pays the Human Cost of Migration?

Kim Hjelmgaard: From 7 to 77: There’s been an explosion in building border walls since World War II.

Timothy Snyder: Wall Around the West: Globalisation along rich-poor divides is less the swan song of state power than its siren song.

Matthew Longo: The Berlin Wall Kept People In. Our New Walls Keep People Out: Walls have made a comeback—but like in Berlin, their effectiveness hinges on mass surveillance.