A review by nat_sanchez
Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism by Harsha Walia

challenging emotional hopeful informative medium-paced

4.5

This book is all about the tyranny of borders as they are used to funnel wealth and commodities and control and immobilize people to uphold racial, imperial, capitalism. Walia uses examples from all over the world to make a case for no borders and to explicate the way that fascist  and  neoliberal regimes co-opt working class desperation into talking points that mask the same goals — to hoard wealth and control land and people. She also talks about the possibility to imagine and create a world that actually centers care. It’s bleak but hopeful.