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Discussion with author/journalist John Washington on “The Case for Open Borders”
October 20, 2024 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm MST
by Carolyn Classen, blogger
October 20 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Discussion with Author and Journalist John Washington, author of The Case for Open Borders
Sunday, October 20, 2024
1:00 p.m.
Pima Meetinghouse, 931 N. 5th Avenue
“The Case for Open Borders deflates the mythology of national security through border lockdowns by revisiting their historical origins; it counters the conspiracies of immigration’s economic consequences; it urgently considers the challenges of climate change beyond the boundaries of narrow national identities.
Because of restrictive borders, human beings suffer and die. Closed borders force migrants seeking safety and dignity to journey across seas, trudge through deserts, and clamber over barbed wire. In the last five years alone, at least 60,000 people have died or gone missing while attempting to cross a border. As we deny, cast out, and crack down, we have stripped borders of their creative potential — as lines of contact, catalyst, and blend — turning our thresholds into barricades.
This book grounds its argument in the experiences and thinking of those on the frontlines of the crisis, spanning the world to do so. In recent years, important thinkers have begun to urge a profoundly different approach to migration, but no book has made the argument as accessible or as compelling.”
Carolyn’s note: John Washington is a journalist for AZ Luminaria (online news source).
“John Washington is an investigative journalist with a focus on immigration and borders, as well as criminal justice and literature. His first book, “The Dispossessed: A Story of Asylum at the US-Mexico Border and Beyond,” was published in 2020 by Verso Books. Washington is also a translator, having co-translated, most recently, “The Hollywood Kid,” by Óscar Martínez and Juan Martínez, and “Blood Barrios,” by Alberto Arce, which won a PEN Translates Award. He has been living in and out of Tucson since 2008. Find more of his work at www.jblackburnwashington.com.
Contact: jwashington@azluminaria.org “
