The imperial frontier

The Border Reader, eds Gilberto Rosas and Mireya Loza, 2023, Duke University Press

This will be the year of the border, in which issues of migration, forced displacement and military incursions will tug at our consciousness like never before.

In Europe, borders are being reinforced amid a creeping securitisation discourse constructing anxieties about a new Cold War. The faux outrage generated by porous borders offer cynical far-right forces opportunities to . . .

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Gavin O'Toole

I've spent much of my career in journalism and newspaper production: worked as a sub-editor and in other production roles at major UK newspapers including the Financial Times, The Guardian, The Observer and the Daily Telegraph / Sunday Telegraph. Covering business, finance, regulation, Latin American affairs and more. As a journalist and freelance writer I've contributed to many publications: work appears in outlets such as Al Jazeera, Public Finance, Global Government Forum, among others. Also an an award-winning writer of short stories and novelist. 

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