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Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move by Reece Jones, 2017; A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea by Melissa Fleming, 2017 [10] Refugee Stories: Seven personal journeys behind the headlines by Dave Smith, 2016 [11] City of Thorns: Nine Lives in the World's Largest Refugee Camp by Ben Rawlence, 2016
According to Niamh Keady-Tabbal and Itamar Mann, writing for the European Journal of International Law, the word "pushback" is related to "an erosion of refugee law, and a parallel license to inflict ever more extreme violence upon people on the move who are not bone fide refugees". In the case of pushbacks in the Aegean, they doubt that ...
Forced displacement (also forced migration or forced relocation) is an involuntary or coerced movement of a person or people away from their home or home region.The UNHCR defines 'forced displacement' as follows: displaced "as a result of persecution, conflict, generalized violence or human rights violations".
Nevada, 73 U.S. 35 (1868) declared that freedom of movement is a fundamental right and therefore a state cannot inhibit people from leaving the state by taxing them. In United States v. Wheeler . 254 U.S. 281 (1920), the Supreme Court reiterated its position that the Constitution did not grant the federal government the power to protect freedom ...
The expected declaration of a national emergency comes as illegal border crossings are at their lowest level in more than five years. In early January, U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported ...
[15] [16] Academics claim that the violence and high murder rates in many of these countries is the direct legacy of the U.S. intervention on behalf of these anti-Communist forces stretching back into the 1950s with the Guatemalan coup d'état, which has shaped the contemporary refugee crisis. [17]
His book Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move argues that making and enforcing a border is an inherently violent act. The citation for the PolGRG Book Award from the Royal Geographical Society called Violent Borders one of the most "influential political geography books published in recent times."
The section of the besieged southern border where hundreds of migrants rushed a barbed wire fence and assaulted Border Patrol agents in a violent melee is now a ghost town -- as crossings plummet ...