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Reece Jones

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Reece Jones is a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow and a Professor and the Chair of the Department of Geography and Environment at the University of Hawai‘i. He is the author of two award-winning books Border Walls (2012) and Violent Borders (2016) as well as over two dozen journal articles and four edited books. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Geopolitics and he lives in Honolulu with his family.

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	Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move 4.02 avg rating — 867 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 4.17 avg rating — 131 ratings — published 2021	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 4.17 avg rating — 125 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 — 53 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) 3.82 avg rating — 17 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
	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
	Handbook on Critical Geographies of Migration (Research Handbooks in Geography series) by Katharyne Mitchell (Editor), Reece Jones (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Jennifer L. Fluri (Editor) 3.67 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

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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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