Archive of Empire of Borders

A reading list on the changing role of borders and how we consider freedom of movement, globalization, and humanitarian crises across the world.

A reading list of US politics books on what to learn from the Bernie Sanders campaign, the legacy of Henry Wallace, the emotion driving members of the US Communist Party in the mid twentieth century and more.

Reading recommendations from Verso authors, including classics by W.E.B. Du Bois, a memoir of growing up along the US-Mexico border, revolutionary poetry, and a coffee table book on abortion.

Our top books from the year - all in one place.

The Global Detention Project has identified more than 2,000 detention centers worldwide. For corporate powers and global elites borders have been erased, but migrants fleeing violence and economic insecurity are faced with deportation or detainment in inhumane detention centers. Todd Miller responds to the crisis at the border and exposes the contradictions in the government justifying the use of concentration camps to detain migrants.

In place of conventional warfare, securocratic wars, waged to protect and secure not individual nations but the international class of wealthy nations, insert themselves into the yawning gaps of global inequalities. Wars on drugs, on terror, on immigrants have created never-ending battlescapes, often along borders. 

The United States is outsourcing its border patrol abroad—and essentially expanding its borders in the process.

There has been a resistance to Brexit causing 'hard borders' around Northern Ireland. But, as Luke Butterly argues, the reality for those who do not meet the criteria of 'Irishness' or 'Britishness' is that there has been a hard border on the island for many years.