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This book is taking me a long time to get thru bc it's so good. Harsha Walia has massive balls for writing this legitimately powerful and dangerous to all imperialists book. She is risking her life literally.

This page is so hard to understand.

This book is absolutely decimating america, as it should

this chapter was wild. australia i was not familiar with your game (derogatory)

the world got a little spooky but i’m back. and full of rage. don’t read this unless u are ready to be full of rage at the details

Next and final book club meeting is tonight so in full-on student fashion, I’m reading the day off. This portion covers migrant worker programs in the US and abroad, and it’s startling to hear how much is involved with these programs. Learning way more than I ever knew before about ones in the US and learning about ones abroad for the first time.

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“Liberal elites barely offer any moral opposition to this eco-apartheid. They avoid the core issues of mitigating climate change, ending forced displacement, and ensuring the rights of climate refugees. Instead, they turn displaced people into a humanitarian cause or a funnel of temporary labor migration.”

Pretty excellent. Unpacks and reminds me of things I forgot I knew.

also thinking alot about the karma of brown folk by Vijay prashad.

“Our economy needs immigrants” treats immigrants as commodities to be traded in capitalist markets and discarded if deemed defective.”


perfection i’m loving all the callouts. hollow neoliberals are just as manipulative and selfish and sacrificing as alt right conservatives +.

Learning so much. This is truly essential for anyone working in the immigration space. But honestly an important read for anyone looking to learn more about immigration in the US and beyond.

salvini got mentioned while talking about european borders... first reaction: shock (REAL)

imagine being so shitty u reach international fame for being responsible for the deadliest border in the world

Finally getting into this book after so long since I’m in a book club that’s reading it! Spent a good chunk of today listening to it. Such a great read.

received this as a gift from a mentor of mine and now feel like it is more important than ever + scratching my IS itch

DNF at 65%. This is obviously well-researched and informative, but reads more like a dissertation and did not keep my attention.

Que es la empatía humana? Y Por qué siempre para empatizar tenemos que recurrir al “Bueno como reaccionarías si te pasara a ti?” Cuando es el lugar correcto y el lugar incorrecto para hablar de temas como la violencia de género, la violencia hacia migrantes, racismo sistemático, etc.

Damn, estamos viviendo en el fin del mundo. O al menos así yo lo siento, Kamala sistema corrupto. La deshumanización de inmigrantes y la fetichisizacion de las mujeres de trabajo doméstico y la vez su invisibilizacion.

Mind breaking. Me hace pensar cosas que ya sabía que existían sin embargo nunca pensé que tuvieran relación, el libro es de 2017 pero aún así las cosas que habla están al mismo nivel de lo que pasa hoy en día. Liberen Palestina. Liberen el Congo.
Derriben las fronteras y la capitalización de ellas.

she’s going innnn on terfs,, “uphold g the gender binary synergizes with ethnonationalist discourses, positioning the nation state as a family”

She's taken on so much in the book that I'm not getting enough of each thing 😂 each chapter could be its own book!

She is really popping off

Kinda got a whiff of what to expect from this after reading the Intro. Not looking forward b/c it’s to be predictable. Lotta big chunky academic words that concatenate to fill sentences, all basically -isms about rich getting richer & poor getting poorer. Kinda disappointed that it’s already politically gone after Trump and brought up Covid blabber. Back when infected meant deadly for CNN, NBC & Big Pharma

This book is a must read

When I started this I thought it'd be like that Rick and Morty meme: 1 week adventure, in and out in no time, just a little bit of reading about borders and migrants. Now every step I take I'm convinced I'm walking on a marsh of planetary blood whose continually engineered spillage sustains every single aspect of contemporary life. Not devastating, apocalyptic.

This is the hardest book I have ever read and it has nothing to do with the writing and everything to do with the unfathomable depths of state and corporate cruelty.

i was literally in bed phone off lights out and i bolted awake bc i forgot to share my progress on this book

“Prison is itself a border.” *affirming moan*

Chapter 2:
- 1.3 million Mexican farmers bankrupted in first decade of NAFTA

- Before NAFTA: 7% of Mexican Migrants were Indigenous; A decade after NAFTA: 29% Mexican Migrants were Indigenous

- Before NAFTA (1990): 4.5 million Mexican Migrants in US; After NAFTA (2008): 12.67 million

my superego recognizes that this book is good even if i dont like it