ABSTRACT

The relationship between justice and borders is complex. When we make a border, we create a space in which certain things can happen, including perhaps practices of justice. But at the same time we exclude those who stand outside from participating in, or benefiting from, those practices. Is justice then on balance served or denied by the building of walls? Does it matter where the walls are built, who is protected within them and who is excluded? Does it matter whether the walls are easy or hard to climb across? These are the questions I shall try to address in this essay.