Harsha Walia

An urgent, global account of the migration crisis and the function of borders across political, social, cultural, and economic systems.

Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

Border and Rule

Angbeen Abbas

it's just pretty good there's nothing else to say. some of this stuff i kinda already know but i think this is a really comprehensive look at borders/migration/capital which i rly appreciated.

priya

"While workers are declared illegal, the surplus value they create is never deemed illegal."

"International phenomena such as "Overseas Friends of BJP" or "Hindus for Trump" are best explained through the prism of Hindutva’s brahminical supremacy and adjoining Islamophobia, rather than typical explanations of whitewashed, model minorities or upward class mobility; savarna caste supremacy and Islamophobia tether but are not synonymous with these symptoms."

"The appropriation of gender and sexuality in the service of power has a capacious trajectory: imperial feminism justifies military interventions to save women from patriarchy, homonationalism claims to liberate queers from sexually repressive cultures, carceral feminism vindicates prison expansion under the guise of victims’ rights, trans-exclusionary feminism reduces gender to biological determinism, and secular femonationalism unveils migrant women from their allegedly primitive religions."

Border and Rule Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

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