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The contradictions of life at the border

Paulina Ochoa Espejo (Haverford): Why Borders Do Matter Morally: The Role of Place in Immigrants’ Rights. Whose interests should matter when deciding a nation’s border policy? Campbell Brown takes a moral look at border control. Lea Ypi (LSE): Borders of Class: Migration and Citizenship in the Capitalist State. Ashwini Vasanthakumar (King’s College): Privatizing Border Control. Steven Levy goes inside Anduril, Palmer Luckey’s bid to build a border wall. Climate change sparked the border migration crisis: The Northern Triangle’s agricultural crisis has been more than a decade in the making.

Michelle Garcia on the border and the American imagination: The latest horror at the border was centuries in the making. F. Cartwright Weiland on border wall foundations. Elizabeth Shakman Hurd on the Border President. Trump brings the contradictions of life at the border to the surface. Libby Watson on how crossing the border became a crime. Breaking border laws is as American as it gets. What it costs to be smuggled across the U.S. border. Victoria Ochoa: “I’m from the border. The news is getting it wrong”.