The Case for Open Borders

By John Washington

Book Overview

A beautifully written, broadly accessible, and forthright argument for a solution to the migration crisis: open the gates

Because of restrictive borders, human beings suffer and die. Closed borders force migrants seeking safety and dignity to journey across seas, trudge through deserts, and clamber over barbed wire. In the last five years alone, over 60,000 people have died or gone missing while attempting to cross a border.

As we deny, cast out, and crack down, we have stripped borders of their potential--as lines of contact, catalyst, and blend--turning our thresholds into barricades.

Brilliant and provocative, The Case for Open Borders deflates the mythology of national security through border lockdowns by revisiting their historical origins. It counters the conspiracies of immigration's economic consequences, and it urgently considers the challenges of climate change beyond the boundaries of narrow national identities.

This book grounds its argument in the experiences and thinking of those on the frontlines of the crisis, spanning the world to do so. In each chapter, John Washington profiles a character impacted by borders. He adds to those portraits provocative analyses of the economics and ethics of bordering, concluding that, if we are to seek justice or sustainability, we must fight for open borders.

In recent years, important thinkers have begun to urge a different approach to migration, but no book has made the argument as accessible or as compelling. Washington's case shines with the voices of people on the move, a portrait of what a world with open borders will give to our common future.

• Format: Audio CD
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0CZ61LVWJ
• ISBN13: 9798874740399
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Dreamscape Media

Customer Reviews

A Very Important Book For The Times!

Why are there "good immigrants" and "bad immigrants?" Why do the "bad ones" tend to have "brown or black skin?" Did you know that some "immigrants" with "white skin," used to be prevented from living in this country and labeled "brown skinned immigrants?" What we are told by the corporate owned main stream media is that immigrants are a threat to us; to our jobs, our economy, our safety. READ THIS BOOK to find out that this just IS NOT TRUE!!! We would do better to actually live by the writing at the base of the Statue of Liberty; "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free..." READ THIS BOOK to find out why we should simply OPEN THE BORDERS! As well as to think about why we have borders in the first place, and how they are not static, but fluid over time, and have tended to change according to how the political and/or imperialistic wind is blowing.