Phil Hubbard, "Borderland: Identity and Belonging at the Edge of England" (Manchester UP, 2022)
New Books in Western European Studies
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The Borderless World
The heart of the book is that paradox the borderand bordering. I think we all understand now that in some ways, everythinginor everyday life, is shaped by things that happen a long way away. Some of our borders have become more er surveyed, more entrenched or more propped up. Any border implies a differential form of inclusion and exclusion. In 20 15, 16 to 28 thousand migrants estimated to have landed in kent by boat last year on the 20 third of august. Very recently this year, 13 hundred migrants arrived in one day, of record. That's forty to 50 migrants crowded in every single rib dingy that's arrived on the shore. The images of those kind
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