Borders A Way Of Marking Territory, By Donella H. Meadows

Borders are arbitrary, and only have power if we, as humans, give them power. As Donella H. Meadows discusses, we’ve created borders as a way of marking territory, but in reality, they are little more than human distinctions. The subjectivity of borders is also enforced through how rapidly they change through happenings such as climate change and governmental decisions. Even so, we as an international community place a vast amount of importance on these political lines to the extent that we’ve allowed migration to become something challenging and often dangerous to do. People migrate for a multitude of reasons, including but not limited to: moving from a developing country to a developed country, moving from a place where their human rights are being violated, moving for jobs and money earning opportunities, moving away from internal conflict and war, and moving from areas affected by natural disasters. Recently, there has been an influx of people migrating to Europe, and the continent has been affectively transformed from a place of emigration to a place of immigration. Many of the migrants who want to enter into Europe are moving in an attempt to escape the harsh post-colonial way of life in Northern Africa, and in order to find a way to earn a living. Migrants make treacherous journeys, often risking their lives, in the hopes of crossing borders and improving their circumstances, but often find that the outcome is not what they were looking for. The European Union