Fortress Europe: Inside the War Against Immigration - Brossura

Carr, Matthew

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1849046271 ISBN 13: 9781849046275

Casa editrice: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, 2015

Riassunto

For nearly thirty years the Berlin Wall symbolised a divided Europe. In the euphoric aftermath of the Cold War, the advent of a new 'borderless' world was hailed, one in which such barriers would become obsolete. Today these utopian predictions have yet to be realised. European governments have enacted the most sustained and far-reaching border enforcement program in history in an attempt to repel migrants seeking work or asylum. Detention and deportation, physical and bureaucratic barriers, naval patrols and satellite technologies: all these form part of the militarised response to immigration adopted by European governments, the human cost of which is often overlooked. These efforts have generated a tragic confrontation between some of the richest countries in the world and a stateless population from the poorest - a clash that occurs within Europe's territorial frontiers and also far beyond them. Fortress Europe investigates that confrontation on Europe's 'hard borders.' In a series of searing dispatches, Carr speaks to border officers and police, officials, migrants, asylum-seekers, and activists.The result is a unique and groundbreaking critique of Europe's exclusionary borders, and an essential guide to the wider drama of migration that will dominate politics for years ahead.

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Recensione:

'Very necessary book ... will provide you with ammunition to use against those who would stoke up our fears, rather than banish them.' --Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian

'Carr travels to remote borderlands of Poland, Spain, Greece, and Malta; Schengen-bordering countries like Turkey and Morocco that collaborate in enforcement; and the heart of western Europe and Britain to meet immigrants stuck in remote detention centers or 'living rough' on city streets for years, as well as temporary workers and sex slaves abused by their handlers and abandoned by governments. But Carr also depicts ordinary Europeans who have gone to great lengths to help these stranded travelers. This disturbing but hopeful book humanizes the face of 21st-century immigration.' --Publishers Weekly

'Carr argues that the combination of internal liberalisation and external hardening has increased criminal, abusive, and often deadly human trafficking, while only modestly reducing immigration. The unique virtue of the book lies in Carr's reporting from the brutal frontiers of the new Europe: Ukrainian border towns where illegal trafficking thrives, Spanish territories in Morocco where would-be immigrants are shot dead or left to die in the Sahara after attempting to scale razor-wire fences, Italian and Maltese islands where overfilled boatloads of Africans drown by the hundreds. ' --Foreign Affairs

L'autore:

Matthew Carr is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in The Observer, The Guardian, The New York Times and on BBC Radio. In 1990 he wrote a memoir about his relationship with his father, My Father's House, which was published to excellent reviews. His interest in history also led him to write The Infernal Machine: An Alternative History of Terrorism (2011) and Blood and Faith: The Purging of Muslim Spain (2009), both of which are published by Hurst.

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• Editore: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1849046271
• ISBN 13: 9781849046275
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 256