Border and Rule

Border and Rule is a must-read book that dives into the complexities of migration as a pillar of global governance and gendered racial class formation. Author Harsha Walia uncovers the brutal mechanics of state formation and shows how borders are used to divide the working class and consolidate imperial, capitalist, ruling class, and racist nationalist rule. Walia disrupts easy explanations for the migrant and refugee crises, instead revealing them to be the inevitable outcomes of conquest, capitalist globalization, and climate change generating mass dispossession worldwide. A clarion call for revolution, Border and Rule is ambitious in scope, internationalist in orientation, and essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the connections between state violence, capitalism, and right-wing nationalism around the world.