'A powerful indictment of borders and border regimes that lays bare the story of how they emerged, how they exercise a tenacious hold on our imagination, and how they enact lethal violence on so many'

- Priyamvada Gopal, Professor of Postcolonial Studies at the University of Cambridge.

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Join Leah Cowan, Helen Brewer and chair Micha Frazer-Carroll for a launch event to mark the release of Leah's book Border Nation: A Story of Migration, the latest book in the Outspoken by Pluto series, published by Pluto Press.

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Borders are more than geographical lines - they impact all our lives, whether it's the inhumanity of deportations, or a rise in racist attacks in the wake of the EU referendum. Border Nation shows how oppressive borders must be resisted.

Laying bare the web of media myths that vilify migrants, Leah Cowan 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.

As 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's freedom to move.

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Leah Cowan is the former Politics Editor at the award-winning magazine gal-dem. She works at Project 17, an advice centre which supports migrant families with No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF). She speaks on race, gender and migration, including for UN Women, in the House of Commons, and at the Trade Unions Congress, and has written for VICE, openDemocracy and the Guardian.

Helen Brewer researches and organises for border abolition. She is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London. Her work is concerned with the cultivation of knowledge in resistance spaces, the construction of solidarity infrastructures and a critical spatial analysis of borders.

On March 28 2017, she was one of 15 people who took direct action to block a mass deportation charter flight from violently removing people to Nigeria and Ghana.

Chair Micha Frazer-Carroll writes The Independent's 'State of the Arts' column, on television, music, film and books. She is the former opinions editor at gal-dem and currently Online Editor at the Runnymede Trust.

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Register through Eventbrite to receive a link to the stream before the event. It will start at 19:00 GMT. You can also find the event on Pluto Press' YouTube channel. The event will be recorded and uploaded to the channel after the event too.

Signed copies of Border Nation are available for attendees based in the UK, just choose the relevant ticket type. Once your signed book ticket has been purchased, please email kierano@plutobooks.com with your address and any dedication you would like the author to write in your book. These will be posted after the event and may take a couple of weeks to arrive.

Border Nation is available to order from our website. Attendees of this event can get 20% off the paperback and ebook editions on this and all of our Outspoken by Pluto series titles, using the coupon code BORDERNATION at the checkout.