Status Updates From Border and Rule: Global Mig...

"Everything written has been said before. The citations trace an inheritance of intellectual labor by brilliant writes, and the book also draws heavily from the innumerable conversations and collaborations with hundreds of community members and organizers over the years. Movement organizing spaces, and kinship networks within them have always been my primary teachers."

“Spectacle as the route to empathy means the atrocities itemized need to happen more often or get worse, to become more atrocious each round in hopes of being registered.” Scenes of border death maintain structures of racial violence and, as statistics of deaths pile up, we cannot evade an interrogation of the source of this violence shaped through imperial, racialized, and spatialized control.

"our era’s migration crisis is not marked by human mobility but rather the reality of mass displacement and immobility, produced by the multifarious and interwoven systems of globalized capitalism, imperialism, and climate catastrophe."