Border and Rule

Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism 

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.

• Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism by Harsha Walia
• Publisher: Haymarket Books (February 9, 2021)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 320 pages
• ISBN-10: 1642592692
• ISBN-13: 9781642592696
• Item Weight: 15.7 ounces
• Dimensions: 5.98 x 0.69 x 9.02 inches