{"id":3435,"date":"2021-04-16T09:46:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T08:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/on-demand-in-conversation-with-leah-cowan-author-of-border-nation"},"modified":"2021-04-16T09:46:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T08:46:00","slug":"on-demand-in-conversation-with-leah-cowan-author-of-border-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/on-demand-in-conversation-with-leah-cowan-author-of-border-nation","title":{"rendered":"ON DEMAND: In conversation with Leah Cowan &#8211; author of Border Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;When people ask me if a borderless world is possible, I answer that many people are already rejecting borders, living across them in defiance of state laws.&#8221;<br \/>\nOn 24 March we were delighted to welcome Leah Cowan in conversation about her new book,\u00a0Border Nation.<br \/>\nBorder Nation\u00a0looks at how borders impact all our lives, whether it&#8217;s the inhumanity of deportations, or a rise in racist attacks in the wake of the EU referendum. Laying\u00a0bare the web of media myths that vilify migrants, Border Nation dives into the murky waters of corporate profiteering from borders by companies like G4S, and the ramping up of everyday borders through legislation. She looks at their colonial origins, and explores how a draconian approach to border crossings damages our communities.<br \/>\nAs borders multiply, so too must resistance. From demonstrations inside detention centres to migrant-led campaigns and acts of cross-border solidarity, people are fighting back to stand up for everyone&#8217;s freedom to &#8230;<br \/><embed style=\"cursor: pointer;\" src=\"\" type=\"\"><\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;When people ask me if a borderless world is possible, I answer that many people are already rejecting borders, living across them in defiance of state laws.&#8221; On 24 March we were delighted to welcome Leah Cowan in conversation about her new book,\u00a0Border Nation. Border Nation\u00a0looks at how borders impact all our lives, whether it&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mirachsolicitors.com\/mirachwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}