Nearly 40,000 people have already lost their lives south of the border, and now the cartels have moved their operations north and into our cities. In south sudan, a struggle to get, and keep, kids in. This is an engaging and lucid analysis of a much misunderstood issue. Reece jones is an associate professor in the department of geography at the university of hawaii at manoa.
Nearly 2 million schoolage children live in south sudan, but more than half dont attend school. Mailing address counterpunch po box 228 petrolia, ca 95558 telephone 1707 6293683. Forty thousand people died trying to cross international borders in. Id recommend this to anyone pissed off about anti immigrant policy and ideology. Ive heard people blame tv, books, and video games for todays youth predilection for sex, foul language, and violence. Following these first explorations, his new book violent borders rather. The book also demonstrated how such policies establish regimes of violence and exclusion. This lesson provides books on a variety of school violence to educate. The officer sued deray mckesson, a black lives matter activist, claiming, without providing details, that mr. Chacon and davis attack the question by revealing the disturbing, centuriesold context for the cross border workingclass, and the resurgence of reactionary antiimmigrant politics and racist vigilante violence. While i am not a border or foreign relations expert, i grew up on the border and lived there for over 30 years. His book is an exciting intervention into many fields of study.
The drug war has claimed thousands of lives in mexico and now the violence has crossed the border into the united states. In this sensitive book about border violence, staudt provides illuminating answers to perplexing questions long asked by people around the world about recent grotesque crimes against women in the notorious city of ciudad juarez. Hernandez weaves together corridos, fiction, government documents, maps, and other sources to examine geographic, territorial, and historical burdens that have led to a complicit endorsement of border violence. My experiences are unique in that i have seen what many others have not. Refugees and the right to move by reece jones isbn. There are other books on heroin use in the united states, but dreamland is unique in its detailed portrait of the illegal crossborder business and the lives that it has touched. The result is that borders have become increasingly violent, and that the many resources that are invested in smoothing the passage for the. Borders, jones convincingly argues, are a means of inflicting violence on poor people. The best books about the united states and mexico border. School violence can take on many different faces, from bullying to school shootings. Without assistance from any major drug cartel, the xalisco boys came to dominate the heroin trade, while avoiding violence and gaining a reputation for singleminded efficiency. No one is illegal powerfully argues that the borders themselves are barriers to imagining real social justice. Violent borders is about the inherent violence of borders, how weve learned to take arbitrary boundaries for granted, and a picture of how the world could be without them.