Sixty-five countries have built walls on their borders to "protect" themselves from immigrants, refugees, terrorists or to separate each other according their religious beliefs. The writer Marcello Di Cintio asserts that "Their main function is theatre. They provide the sense of security, not real security." The effectiveness of the walls is limited. It has been proved through the fact that people tend to climb the walls simply to disturb the others, as in the case of the Palestinians; or to intend crossing these fences no matter what, as the migrants on the border between Morocco and Melilla.
However, what shocked me most was the barrier that Macedonia adopted to block the border with Greece. Not only they placed wire on the ground, but they also send a riot police to prevent people crossing into the country. On the photographs and video, we can perfectly appreciate the brutality, agression and despair on people. The barbed-wire fence in India and the mines along the fence between Morocca and Western Sahara are the two other cases that affected me. I consider that walls are not the solution to criminals, immigrants or refugees or to the different difficulties that countries have to face, but they even deepen more and more the differences between the two sides. As a matter of fact, I do not think that these walls are going to be pulled down; on the contrary, politicians seem to believe that these fences are the best strategies to be implemented. Even in Argentina a wall to separate Jujuy from Bolivia is going to be erected. To conclude, I did not know that so many walls existed, and I think that even more ones will be built in a near future.
Source:
Tomlinson, S., World of walls. August 2015. Retrieved from Mail online website: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3205724/How-65-countries-erected-security-walls-borders.html
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