BORDER AND RULE

“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 “Read Harsha Walia and your understanding of the world will shift.” —Astra Taylor, author of Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss It When It's Gone and The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age “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 No One Is Illegal: Fighting Racism and State Violence on the U.S.-Mexico Border and Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties “Harsha Walia's decades of visionary leadership in border abolition and migrant justice work, along with her relentless intellectual rigor, is apparent in this immensely important book, arriving right when we need it most.” —Dean Spade, author of Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During this Crisis (and the Next) and Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law “We know that borders are violence. We know that violence numbs our collective imagination. We know that imagination is a muscle that must be exercised daily to prevent atrophy. This book is the workout. Border and Rule works us. With rigor, precision, and care, Harsha Walia pushes us beyond false solutions, rainbow imperialisms, and exclusionary projections. What a privilege to think with her, to build movement muscle for a world free of borders.” —Shailja Patel, author of Migritude “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 Not “A Nation of Immigrants”: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion and 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 and Against Race: Imagining Political Culture Beyond the Color Line

“Harsha Walia's work is a must-read for anyone interested in issues of immigration The activist, author, and educator's brand-new book, Border & Rule, explores how borders around the globe divide the working class, empower the ruling class, and criminalize refugees, along with the ways in which state violence, capitalism, and right-wing nationalism are all connected.”