Please join us on December 7, at 1 p.m. mountain time (3 p.m. EST), for a discussion thread pondering the questions: What is border externalization? What does it mean for policy, strategy, and people on the move in large numbers around the world? And what does it mean for a border industry that continues to grow and grow?
We have an amazing panel of international experts who will help us engage these questions as we think about not only U.S. and European border extension into distant places around the globe, but also the global border industry, with a particular focus on Israel. We will also contemplate the effects of the changing climate in all this. Ana María Vásquez—an artist and activist who spends every summer on the Panamanian-Colombian border—will give a firsthand account of what she has witnessed on that border. Ana María is also one of the founders of the Border Patrol Victims Network. Journalist and author Antony Loewenstein, who is the author of the recent and very timely The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation around the World, will talk about Israel’s participation in the global border industry. The Amsterdam-based Transnational Institute’s Project Officer for their War and Pacification program Josephine Valeske will discuss border externalization from a European perspective. We also are crossing our fingers that Border Chronicle favorite Amali Tower, director and founder of the organization Climate Refugees, will join us directly from the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Dubai, to offer analysis about how climate change is a part of the mass displacement we are seeing at all corners of the world and how border externalization impacts that.
Border Chronicle co-founder Todd Miller will moderate the conversation and add perspective on U.S. border externalization, which he researched in depth for his book Empire of Borders: The Expansion of the U.S. Border around the World.
Normally, we offer these discussion threads for our paid subscribers as a special thanks for supporting our reporting and analysis. The Border Chronicle requires a lot of times and resources. And we need your support to continue!
But this Thursday we’re going to open up the discussion for our free subscribers as well, so that you can get an idea of our full offerings for paid subscribers. We’re also considering expanding into online Q&A’s with invited experts, which we’re going to explore in 2024.
If you’re unfamiliar with discussion threads, they are a rolling text-based conversation with ample space for readers to ask questions and make comments and observations. When the discussion launches, participants will receive an email in their inbox from us at 12:00 pm PT/ 1:00 MT/2:00 CT/ 3:00 ET, and you can begin submitting your questions and comments for the invited experts. We hope to see you Thursday!
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