In this book, prominent migrant justice organizer Harsha Walia writes migration and borders into our understanding of how power works at a global level. In a clear rejection of shallow liberal conceptualizations of the issue, it looks to root causes and to the many ways migration and its regulation are intertwined with capitalism, settler colonialism, and so many other aspects of power that are often treated as distinct and unrelated. Explores specific aspects of border regimes in the US, Canada, Australia, the Gulf States, Fortress Europe, and more, as part of making clear the many ways in which “borders are not fixed lines or passive objects simply demarcating territory; borders are productive regimes both generated by and reproducing racialized social relations, further imbued by gender, sexuality, class, ability, and nationality” (78). The book also does important work thinking through the growing power of the far right in this context, and the ongoing political dangers of liberal and left nationalisms. Very clearly and straightforwardly written, and filled with lots of concrete examples and an overall orientation towards principled, radical, collective struggle. A very important book!
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