Border and Rule - by Harsha Walia (Paperback)

About the Book

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

Book Synopsis

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

Review Quotes

"Harsha Walia doesn't peddle easy solutions or liberal bromides. She has a knack for going to the root of our planetary crises and explaining how we arrived here, and what to do about it. Those of us who have been reading and following her for years expect nothing less. She is not only one of North America's most brilliant thinkers, she is also an organizer who has devoted her life to fighting racial capitalism, colonialism, militarism, xenophobia, patriarchy, and defending the rights of migrants, Indigenous people, women, and the unhoused. This book is a shock to the system." -Robin D. G. Kelley, from the Foreword

"In Walia's expert hands, the planet's sprawling borderlands are exposed as capitalism's gaping wounds, filled with escalating terror and torment as whiteness ferociously seeks to defend its imagined boundaries. This is a book of unsparing truth and dazzling ambition, providing readers with desperately needed intellectual ammunition to confront the inherent violence of borders. An enormous contribution to our movements." --Naomi Klein, author of This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate

"I was haunted and agitated by this book which is part expose and part clarion call for radical action. Harsha Walia offers an unsparing analysis of the violences of forced migration, borders, imperialism and capitalism. The case studies presented in this book weave a quilt that provides us with needed knowledge to confront current problems that demand an organized collective response. The ideas in this book will linger long after you've put it down." --Mariame Kaba, founder and director of Project NIA

"This indispensable, deeply researched, and beautifully written book is the first and most in-depth global analysis of borders and immigration, wars and displacement, imperialism and western white nationalism. Always with her ear to the ground and paying close attention to the people whose lives are wrecked or lost, Walia demands action and offers real solutions." --Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States.

"Harsha Walia's deeply thoughtful and well-written book makes creative connections that other writers have preferred to ignore. It offers a lucid, insightful survey of the most difficult political issues that we face." --Paul Gilroy, author of The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness

"In this exceptional book, Harsha Walia takes us on a stunning and terrifying tour of the Great Wall of Capitalism, the border killing zone where viral fascism feeds on the bodies of the poor and persecuted. Hell is already here." --Mike Davis, co-author of Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties

"Border and Rule provides a kaleidoscopic exposéeacute;, painstaking analysis, and damning indictment of the border regimes that are generating and fueling anti-migrant brutality and state violence on an international scale. Harsha Walia is relentless in drilling into, detailing, and cataloguing the array of processes, players, policies, and ideologies that uphold systems of border imperialism--while simultaneously mapping-out for us an understanding of how we can disrupt and dismantle them." --Justin Akers Chacóoacute;n, co-author of No One Is Illegal: Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U.S.-Mexico Border

"Building on the thesis of her seminal book Undoing Border Imperialism, Harsha Walia's incisive voice in Border and Rule -- equally rigorously theoretical and lovingly commu

About the Author

Harsha Walia is the award-winning author of Undoing Border Imperialism (2013). Trained in the law, she is a community organizer and campaigner in migrant justice, anti-capitalist, feminist, and anti-imperialist movements, including No One Is Illegal and Women's Memorial March Committee.