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Phoebe Braithwaite is openDemocracy’s submissions editor.

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DSEI: A supermarket for state surveillance and border wars

Amy Hall and Sara Woods 6 September 2017

As borders are increasingly militarised and their operation privatised, migration, more than ever before, is also an anti-militarist struggle.

Gaza border controls: frustration, despair and death

Louise Brown 17 August 2017

This summer how many people will drive, walk, or take a train and barely realise that they have crossed a border? How many people will know about the 2 million residents of Gaza that don’t have that right?

Historical amnesia and Europe’s migration relations with Libya

Craig Damian Smith 2 July 2017

Driven by domestic politics and the need to be seen to be doing something, Europe has locked itself in a cycle of dodgy deals.