Border & Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism
Author: Harsha Walia
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Print Length: 320 pages
Genre: Non-Fiction / Social Science, Political Science
Area: North America, The United States of America (USA), Canada, The United Kingdom (UK), Europe, Australia, Middle East, Palestine/Israel, India, Philippines, Brazil
Topic: Migration, Nationalism, Racism, Racist Nationalism, Imperialism, Zionism, Nation-Building & Nationhood, Borders, Capitalism, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Immigration Control, Immigration System, Class, Gender, Refugees & Forced Migration, Geopolitics, State Formation, Citizenship
In Border and Rule, one of North America’s foremost thinkers and immigrant rights organizers delivers an unflinching examination of migration as a pillar of global governance and gendered racial class formation.
Harsha Walia disrupts easy explanations for the migrant and refugee crises, instead showing them to be the inevitable outcomes of conquest, capitalist globalization, and climate change generating mass dispossession worldwide. Border and Rule explores a number of seemingly disparate global geographies with shared logics of border rule that displace, immobilize, criminalize, exploit, and expel migrants and refugees. With her keen ability to connect the dots, Walia demonstrates how borders divide the international working class and consolidate imperial, capitalist, ruling class, and racist nationalist rule. Ambitious in scope and internationalist in orientation, Border and Rule breaks through American exceptionalist and liberal responses to the migration crisis and cogently maps the lucrative connections between state violence, capitalism, and right-wing nationalism around the world.
Illuminating the brutal mechanics of state formation, Walia exposes US border policy as a product of violent territorial expansion, settler-colonialism, enslavement, and gendered racial exclusion. Further, she compellingly details how Fortress Europe and White Australia are using immigration diplomacy and externalized borders to maintain a colonial present, how temporary labor migration in the Arab Gulf states and Canada is central to citizenship regulation and labor control, and how far-right nationalism is escalating deadly violence in the US, Israel, India, the Philippines, Brazil, and across Europe, while producing a disaster of statelessness for millions elsewhere.
A must-read in these difficult times of war, inequality, climate change, and global health crisis, Border and Rule is a clarion call for revolution. The book includes a foreword from renowned scholar Robin D. G. Kelley and an afterword from acclaimed activist-academic Nick Estes.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword by Robin D. G. Kelley
Introduction
PART ONE: DISPLACEMENT CRISIS, NOT BORDER CRISIS
1. Historic Entanglements of US Border Formation
Conquest as Border Formation
Border Formation through Indigenous Elimination
Anti-Black Controls and Border Politics
State Formation through White Supremacy
2. US Wars Abroad, Wars at Home
Wars on Drugs: Criminalization, Crackdowns, and Counterinsurgency
Detention and Globalized Racial Violence
Neoliberal Impoverishment, Border Militarization, and Carceral Governance
Preemptive Wars of Terror
3. Dispossession, Deprivation, Displacement: Reframing the Global Migration Crisis
Export Processing Zones as Extranational Zones
Displacement by Starvation Wages and Rising Seas
Global Dispossession through Land Grabs and Climate Change
PART TWO: “ILLEGALS” AND “UNDESIRABLES”: THE CRIMINALIZATION OF MIGRATION
4. Bordering Regimes
Four Border Governance Strategies
Externalization as Border Imperialism
5. Australia and the Pacific Solution
Colonial Production of White Australia
Mandatory and Offshore Detention
6. Fortress Europe
Imperial Containment
Routes of Securitization and Externalization
Disrupting Liberal “Welcome”
Black Mediterranean
PART THREE: CAPITALIST GLOBALIZATION AND INSOURCING OF MIGRANT LABOR
7. Temporary Labor Migration and the New Braceros
Five Features of Migrant Worker Programs
Domestic Work and Global Care Chains
8. The Kafala System in the Gulf States
State Development and Gulf Capitalism
Kafala as Capture and Control
9. Permanently Temporary: Managed Migration in Canada
Myth of Multicultural Canada
Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program
Caregiver Program
PART FOUR: MAKING RACE, MOBILIZING RACIST NATIONALISMS
10. Mapping the Global Far Right and the Crisis of Statelessness
White Nationalism, Zionism, Hindutva: Ethnonationalist Bedfellows
Penal Populism under Duterte and Bolsonaro
European Welfare Nationalism and Imperial Gendered Racism
Statelessness in a State-Centric World
11. Refusing Reactionary Nationalisms
Class through the Prism of Race
Making of “Foreigner” through Nationalist Identities
Flames of Eco-facism
Conclusion
Afterword by Nick Estes
Notes
Index
Harsha Walia is a Punjabi Sikh writer and organizer based in Vancouver, unceded Indigenous Coast Salish territories. She has been involved in community-based grassroots migrant justice, feminist, anti-racist, Indigenous solidarity, anti-capitalist, Palestinian liberation, and anti-imperialist movements for the past two decades, including through collectives and coalitions such as No One Is Illegal, Defenders of the Land, Anti-Capitalist Convergence, and Women’s Memorial March Committee. Her day gig is in an anti-violence service provider organization supporting survivors of gender-based violence. She is the award-winning author of Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism (2021) and Undoing Border Imperialism (2013), and co-author of Never Home: Legislating Discrimination in Canadian Immigration as well as Red Women Rising: Indigenous Women Survivors in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
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