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

“Racist ethnonation-alism and liberal multiculturalism both serve to uphold racial regimes through a social organization of difference. A proclamation like “Immigrants steal our jobs,” and its rejoinder, “Our economy needs immigrants” treats immigrants as commodities to be traded in capitalist markets and discarded if deemed defective.”

have you ever wondered how those imaginary lines (between Canada and the US, US and Mexico) got established on Turtle Island? Harsha Walia tells it like it is

this is so good but so dense

“During the cold war, Haitian refugees fleeing US destabilization were detained and deported, while Vietnamese refugees characterized as fleeing despotic communist people’s army and viet cong forces were rescued and welcomed, thus revealing the geopolitics of the refugee order.”

“Racist ethnonationalism and liberal multiculturalism both serve to uphold racial regimes through a social organization of difference. A proclamation like 'Immigrants steal our jobs,' and its rejoinder, 'our economy needs immigrants' treats immigrants as commodities to be traded in capitalist markets and discarded if deemed defective.”

ANOTHER FANTASTIC ROBIN DG KELLEY FORWARD!

"Injustice is not ordained to determine our future."

I really appreciated how Walia highlighted the organizing--and victories--of migrant careworkers.

Australia’s Woomera detention center is built on a former military site on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea. Children made up 1/3 of people detained there in overcrowded and terrible conditions. It was closed in 2003 after widespread hunger strikes and riots, including a breakout where more than 1000 people on the outside helped tear down the fencing and allowed people to escape.