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Border Wars No more borders

War and Pacification

The default response for dealing with rising numbers of refugees and migrants has been to militarise borders rather than address humanitarian needs or tackle the underlying causes of people forced to uproot from home. TNI's Border Wars work looks at the globalisation of border security, the way it criminalises refugees and those who support them, the policies that have put security above human rights, and the corporate interests that are driving the agenda and profiting from it.

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  • Border Imperialism in the Maghreb Violence, Exploitation, Accumulation and Resistance

    Border Wars

    Militarised borders are colonial constructs and their fortification in the Maghreb region serves a Western imperialist agenda. Many of the borders that demarcate African countries today owe their origins to illegal land grabs and colonisation in the late nineteenth century by various western European states. Our new research examines the historical roots and political economy of border-making and border violence in the Mediterranean and countries across North Africa, examining the legal and institutional frameworks of four countries in the Maghreb – Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia. The report concludes by looking at the forms of resistance that have emerged to border imperialism, some of which draw on the ethos of earlier anti-colonial, pan-African, and Third Worldist struggles to imagine and practise community beyond an imperialist-capitalist order.

    Report de
    Corinna Mullin

  • Repackaging Imperialism The EU – IOM border regime in the Balkans

    Border Wars
    Report de
    • Nidžara Ahmetašević
    • Manja Petrovska
    • Sophie-Anne Bisiaux
    • Lorenz Naegeli
    Cover image

  • Financing border wars The border industry, its financiers and human rights

    Border Wars
    Policy briefing de
    Mark Akkerman

  • Global Climate Wall : How the world’s wealthiest nations prioritise borders over climate action

    • Border Wars
    • Climate Crisis
    • Climate Security
    Report de
    • Todd Miller
    • Nick Buxton
    • Mark Akkerman

  • Fanning the Flames : How the European Union is fuelling a new arms race

    • Border Wars
    • EU Militarism and War Policies
    Report de
    • Mark Akkerman
    • Pere Brunet
    • Andrew Feinstein
    • Tony Fortin
    • Angela Hegarty
    • Niamh Ní Bhriain
    • Joaquín Rodriguez Alvarez
    • Laëtitia Sédou
    • Alix Smidman
    • Josephine Solanki

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Global Climate Wall: How the world’s wealthiest nations prioritise borders over climate action

Publication

This report finds that the world’s biggest emitters of green house gases are spending, on average, 2.3 times as much on arming their borders as they are on climate finance. This figure is as high as 15 times as much for the worst offenders. This “Global Climate Wall” aims to seal off powerful countries from migrants, rather than addressing the causes of displacement.

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Key documents

  • Financing border wars The border industry, its financiers and human rights

    Border Wars
    Policy briefing de
    Mark Akkerman

  • Global Climate Wall How the world’s wealthiest nations prioritise borders over climate action

    • Border Wars
    • Climate Crisis
    • Climate Security
    Report de
    • Todd Miller
    • Nick Buxton
    • Mark Akkerman

  • The Business of Building Walls

    Border Wars
    Report de
    Mark Akkerman

  • More Than A Wall Corporate Profiteering and the Militarization of US borders

    Border Wars
    Report de
    Todd Miller

  • Expanding the fortress The policies, the profiteers and the people shaped by EU's border externalisation programme

    • Border Wars
    • Middle East and North Africa
    Report de
    Mark Akkerman

  • Border Wars II An update on the arms industry profiting from Europe's refugee tragedy

    Border Wars
    Policy briefing de
    Mark Akkerman
    Border Wars II cover image

  • Border Wars The arms dealers profiting from Europe's refugee tragedy

    Border Wars
    Report de
    Mark Akkerman

Experts

  • Niamh Ní Bhriain Programme Coordinator War and Pacification

    • Militarism
    • EU Militarism and War Policies
    • Border Wars

  • Nick Buxton Knowledge Hub Coordinator

    • State of Power
    • Climate Security
    • Border Wars
    • Digital Futures

  • Mark Akkerman

    • Climate Security
    • Border Wars

  • Josephine Solanki Project Officer

    • Border Wars
    • Militarism
    • EU Militarism and War Policies

Border Wars: Corporations

Podcast

This podcast takes a closer look at the military and security companies that have benefited from the refugee crisis. These companies provide, among other things, the equipment for border guards, the surveillance technology to monitor frontiers, and the IT infrastructure to track population movements. We will also look at how these companies grow their influence, and how they are implicated in a global restructuring of labour that has led to injustice, suffering, and death.
 

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