Undoing Border Imperialism combines academic discourse, lived experiences of displacement, and movement-based practices into an exciting new book. By reformulating immigrant rights movements within a transnational analysis of capitalism, labor exploitation, settler colonialism, state building, and racialized empire, it provides the alternative conceptual frameworks of border imperialism and decolonization. Drawing on the author’s experiences in No One Is Illegal, this work offers relevant insights for all social movement organizers on effective strategies to overcome the barriers and borders within movements in order to cultivate fierce, loving, and sustainable communities of resistance striving toward liberation. The author grounds the book in collective vision, with short contributions from over twenty organizers and writers from across North America.
Author(s): Harsha Walia
Publisher: AK Press
Year: 2013
Language: English
Pages: 0
City: Vancouver
Contents
Foreword, Andrea Smith ix
Introduction 1
“Pick One,” Jessica Danforth 23
Chile Con Carne, Carmen Aguirre 26
The Bracelet, Adil Charkaoui 28
Imposters, Tara Atluri 30
1 What Is Border Imperialism? 35
The Door of No Return, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha 81
Enemy Alien, Lily Yuriko Shinde 85
Grassroots Wet’suwet’en, Toghestiy, Mel Bazil, and Freda Huson 87
Chronologies, Rafeef Ziadah 90
Seeking Refuge, Karla Lottini 92
2 Cartography of NOII 95
Working alongside Migrant Farmworkers, Aylwin Lo 159
To Prevent a Deportation, Cecily Nicholson 161
Serendipity, Nassim Elbardouh 164
No Easy Victories, Mostafa Henaway 167
3 Overgrowing Hegemony: Grassroots Theory 171
4 Waves of Resistance Roundtable 205
5 Journeys toward Decolonization 247
Epilogue, Syed Khalid Hussan 277
Notes 285
