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Matthew Carr on ''Fortress Europe''

Thursday 12th November 2015
18:30 at Waterstones, London - Trafalgar Square

Fortress Europe: Inside the War Against Immigration (Paperback)

Join us for an evening with Matthew Carr, speaking about his book Fortress Europe to journalist and critic Maya Jaggi.

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''Fortress Europe''

When the Berlin Wall crumbled in 1989, a euphoric continent hailed the advent of a new ‘borderless’ Europe in which such barriers would become obsolete. More than twenty-five years later, in the midst of the continent’s worst refugee crisis since World War II, European governments have enacted the most sustained and far-reaching border enforcement programme in history. Detention and deportation, physical and bureaucratic barriers, naval patrols and satellite technologies: all these have been part of Europe’s undeclared ‘war’ against undocumented immigration.

These efforts have generated a tragic confrontation between some of the richest countries in the world and a stateless population from the poorest. The human consequences of that confrontation have become impossible to ignore, as migrants drown in unprecedented numbers in the Mediterranean or find themselves trapped in chokepoints like Calais, Hungary and Greece.

Fortress Europe, published here in a revised and updated edition, is an urgent investigation into Europe’s militarised borders. In a series of searing dispatches, Carr speaks to border officers and police, officials, migrants, asylum-seekers and activists from across the continent. The result is a unique and ground-breaking critique of Europe’s exclusionary borders, and an essential guide to the wider drama of migration that will dominate politics for years ahead.

Matthew Carr is a freelance journalist whose work has appeared in The Observer, The Guardian, The New York Times and on BBC Radio. He is the author of The Infernal Machine and Blood and Faith.

Maya Jaggi is an award-winning cultural journalist and critic who has reported from five continents and been described as 'one of Britain's most respected arts journalists' by the Open University, which awarded her an honorary doctorate in 2012. She writes for publications including Financial Times and Guardian Review. Educated at Oxford and the LSE, she was a DAAD fellow in Berlin in 2014.

Waterstones, London - Trafalgar Square

Thursday 12th November 2015
18:30

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