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Borders: Laurie Taylor explores the control and shifting nature of national borders.

Borders: Laurie Taylor explores the control of national borders. He talks to Nira Yuval Davis, Director of the research centre on Migration, Refugees and Belonging at the University of East London and co-author of a new book which asks why borders have moved from the margins into the centre of political life and turned many ordinary citizens into untrained border guards. They鈥檙e joined by Jeremy Slack, Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Texas, who charts the way in which Mexican deportees from the United States become the targets of extreme drug related violence upon their return to Mexico.

Producer: Jayne Egerton

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28 minutes

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Mon 27 Jan 2020 00:15

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聽-聽Director of the research Centre for Migration, Refugees and Belonging at the University of East London

聽-聽Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Texas

Further Reading

叠辞谤诲别谤颈苍驳听by Nira Yuval-Davis, Georgie Wemyss and Kathryn Cassidy

Deported to Death by Jeremy Slack

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  • Wed 22 Jan 2020 16:00
  • Mon 27 Jan 2020 00:15

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