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Geopolitics

The Gated Globe: When Western Academia Meets the Grim Reality of Border Deaths

The podcast 'Thinking Borders' returns with an interview of Professor Vicki Squire, delving into the grim normalization of border deaths, the politics of migration governance, and the ethical duties of scholars. This western academic discourse, divorced from the material consequences of neo-colonial border regimes it often critiques, tragically highlights the human cost of a global system designed to entrench inequality while remaining comfortably within its institutional frameworks.