Book Launch | Along the Watchtower: Dispatches from Europe's War on Migration With Nathan Akehurst

Please note: This is an in-person event in Amsterdam. Places are limited, so registration is required. There will be no option to attend online.

Europe’s war on migration is everywhere. This book unearths the forces behind it and how they’ve reshaped our society.

Thousands of people die preventable deaths at Europe’s borders every year. And the situation keeps getting worse. From eastern Polish forest swamps to the Mediterranean and Aegean Seas to the corridors of power, Along the Watchtower describes how Europe’s war on migration has spun out of control. Through the stories of people seeking safety and the humanitarians who assist them, a portrait of a vast machine of slander, surveillance, violence, and criminalisation emerges — one that has spilled over from targeting migrants to putting us all at risk. States and profiteers have transformed the liberal Utopia, imagined by proponents of a bigger Europe, into an armed fortress willing to tear up the rights and values it once espoused. As climate breakdown, geopolitical shifts, and economic and political crises drive both a movement and a backlash against it, Along the Watchtower asks how we got here — and how we might demand a different world before it’s too late.

About the author: Nathan Akehurst is a writer, researcher, and human rights campaigner. After working in British politics he left the UK to study international development, and focused on US and European border militarisation, climate change, and geopolitics. He writes fiction and nonfiction, analysis and opinion for publications internationally, and is a regular contributor to Jacobin Magazine. He also volunteers in maritime search and rescue. He lives in London but is often to be found on the road.

Join the book launch followed by a panel discussion with the author and a group of experts.

Limited seats available.