Harsha Walia, Border and Rule

In a world increasingly polarized by political partisanship, Harsha Walia’s Border and Rule provides a glimpse into the involvement of all factions of political power in subscribing to a capitalist, exploitative agenda, while enlightening (or disillusioning) us about those claiming the opposite. Her focus is on the plight of refugees and migrants across the world and their treatment by First World governments and ruling monarchies. Beginning in the USA, she shows that while the discourse of right-wing adherents against the infiltration of migrants is that the latter are ‘stealing (their) jobs’, the one adopted by neoliberals is that migrants are needed to ‘build the economy’. Walia argues that both stances are couched in the language of capitalism, dehumanising refugees and migrants, and treating them as chattels and units worthy of exploitation. The image she paints is grim, uncovering the guilty involvement of so-called benevolent structures and organizations put in place

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