Here is a look at some of the walls now in place. “Fences also generate novel and more dramatic entry methods, such as the collective ‘runs’ at the fences we have seen at various borders in recent years,” Andersson said, citing events in the Spanish North African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla in 20. “These fences are not solving anything,” Andersson said. In other words, people who want to cross a border badly enough will find creative ways to circumvent a wall – even if it means taking greater risks by crossing elsewhere. For another, it seems that where there’s a wall, there’s a way. Not according to Ruben Andersson, an anthropologist at the London School of Economics and Political Science and the author of a book titled “Illegality, Inc.: Clandestine migration and the business of bordering Europe.”įor one thing, Andersson said, walls tend to be built for domestic political reasons by governments that want to be seen to be doing something about migration. And more and more of them are being built around the world. What we are seeing now is walls built not to keep people in, as was the purpose of the Berlin Wall, but to keep people out. And nearly 26 years after the Berlin Wall fell, barriers around the world still separate neighbor from neighbor. Ethnic tension, national rivalries and mass migrations seem to be permanent parts of the human condition.
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