“I suggest the best way to address the inequalities of the global border regime, which allows wealth to accumulate in the hands of corporations and powerful states at the expense of workers around the world, is to remove restrictions on movement for workers and remove the barriers of state sovereignty for regulators.” (Jones vi)
Jones suggests something quite natural; bodies move. The border crises are global crises and if we consider global wages for people across the world, perhaps we can equalize. Equalize what? Value of work? Value of a person? Is it about recognition of individuals? We cannot deny globalization. But perhaps we can quit denying a representation of the people whom it affects or who affect it.
Jones refers to James C. Scott and his book Seeing Like a State — and the question, “why the state has always seemed to be the enemy of people who move around,” (Jones ix)
Let’s let people move!