Tag Archives: Fortress Europe

Beyond the Border

Posted on January 3, 2013 by Matt

In the early 21st century it is possible to detect a contradictory dynamic in global politics. On the one hand we inhabit an increasingly integrated and ‘borderless’ world in which national barriers against the movement of commodities and capital have … Continue reading →

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The trouble with Fortress Europe

Posted on November 21, 2012 by Matt

For more than two decades now, the European Union has been conducting the most extensive, sophisticated and far-reaching border enforcement programme in history, largely in an attempt to prevent ‘illegal’ immigration – a category that generally refers to undocumented ‘economic … Continue reading →

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‘Fortress Europe’: talk at Housmans

Posted on October 31, 2012 by Matt

Next Wednesday I’ll be at Housmans bookshop in London, talking about my new book Fortress Europe: Dispatches from a Gated Continent with Liz Fekete, executive director of the Institute of Race Relations and the author of the terrific A Suitable … Continue reading →

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