We are living in the great age of human migration. Some 200 million people alive today have moved from their countries of origin and, according to a recent international survey, as many as 700 million more would migrate if they could. The political reaction - in Europe no less than in the United States - has been to batten down the hatches. More than a million migrants have been expelled from the US during Barack Obama's administration, a record rate. Jeremy Harding's evocative reporting across Europe and on the US - Mexican border provides fascinating, haunting portraits of migrants, as well as less attractive and sometimes frightening profiles of the anti- immigrant zealots who oppose them. Equally unparalleled is Harding's comparative analysis of the failure, indeed, mirage of exclusionary policy in both Europe and the US.
JEREMY HARDING is a Contributing Editor at the London Review of Books. His books include Mother Country: Memoir of an Adopted Boy and Small Wars, Small Mercies.
Title: Border Vigils: Keeping Migrants Out of the Rich World
Author: Jeremy Harding
ISBN: 9781781680636
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Publisher: Verso Books
Publication Date: 2012-10-08
Number of Pages: 176
Weight: 0.2042 kg
Praise for Mother Country The most brilliant British memoir published in years. Andrew O'Hagan Harding is a conjurer. Give him a long-since demolished stairwell, and he'll give you a world - its sound, its smell, the feeling that you could stumble upon it still. Rachel Cooke, Observer Stunning. Boston Globe Beautifully written, funny and sad, this book is simply captivating. Cressida Connolly, Daily Telegraph Fluid and invigorating ... a delicate and absorbing account of Harding's investigation into the circumstances of his adoption. John Palattella, Nation