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Reece Jones is the author of five books: Nobody is Protected, White Borders, Violent Borders, Border Walls, and the forthcoming Smuggler with Greg Boos. He is a professor of Geography and Environment at the University of Hawai'i, editor-in-chief of the journal Geopolitics, and a Guggenheim Fellow. ...more

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	Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move 4.03 avg rating — 884 ratings — published 2016 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	White Borders: The History of Race and Immigration in the United States from Chinese Exclusion to the Border Wall 4.19 avg rating — 146 ratings — published 2021 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nobody is Protected: How the Border Patrol became the Most Dangerous Police Force in the United States 4.18 avg rating — 137 ratings — published 2022 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Border Walls: Security and the War on Terror in the United States, India, and Israel 4.04 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2012 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Open Borders: In Defense of Free Movement (Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation Ser. Book 41) by Reece Jones (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Mathew Coleman (Editor), Sapana Doshi (Editor) 3.70 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Borderlines and Borderlands: Political Oddities at the Edge of the Nation-State by Alexander C. Diener (Editor), Joshua Hagen (Editor), Eric D. Carter (Contributor) 3.67 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Placing the Border in Everyday Life (Border Regions Series) 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2014 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Smuggler: Drugs, Gangs, and Refugees at America's Northern Border really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Borders and Mobility in South Asia and Beyond by Reece Jones (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Md. Azmeary Ferdoush (Editor) 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2018 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La violence des frontières: Les réfugiés et le droit de circuler it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Reece Jones and 2 other people liked Randal White's review of Smuggler: Drugs, Gangs, and Refugees at America's Northern Border: "This is was a very, very surprising book! When I think of "smuggling" people across the border, my mind automatically goes to the southern border with Mexico. I was not aware that people were being smuggled from the United States into Canada. And how" Read more of this review »
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Reece Jones and 5 other people liked Robert Alexander Johnson's review of Smuggler: Drugs, Gangs, and Refugees at America's Northern Border: "⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Surprisingly Compelling Exploration of the Northern Border Some nonfiction books immediately feel dry the moment you pick them up. Smuggler: Drugs, Gangs, and Refugees at America's Northern Border by Reece Jones and Greg Boos was the complete o" Read more of this review »
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“By refusing to abide by a wall, map, property line, border, identity document, or legal regime, mobile people upset the state's schemes of exclusion, control, and violence. They do this simply by moving.”
― Reece Jones, Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move

tags: borders, migrations, states, violence, walls

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Which book on migration would you like to read in March 2019?

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

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The Age of Migration: International Population Movements in the Modern World by Stephen Castles

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Vijf eeuwen migratie by Leo Lucassen

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