Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism Paperback – February 9, 2021

Harsha Walia is a brilliant thinker, and Border & Rule helps make sense of an incomprehensible world. This book is a masterpiece and one of the most important books I have read in my life. It’s beautifully rendered, and with rigorous attention to unpacking how our current systems actively try and stop us from building an ethical world. But this book’s existence in the world is enough to renew my hope in what kind of future is possible.

A wonderfully expansive and revealing book, Border and Rule is as thorough as it is well-written. Though undoubtedly an information-dense book, it reads like a novel due to its impeccable plotting and consistently accessible formatting. I had to buy a physical copy in addition to my audiobook, just so I could mark the pages. I know I haven’t read it for the last time, it’s a timeless text!!

This book provides an incisive transnational account of the connections between neoliberalism, extraction economies, climate change, and the violences playing out in and across borders. Walia shows the ways that borders divide cross-class solidarities and consolidate capital with the global elites. It is a vital read for understanding our times.

A great read to help understand how we have arrived at the present day climate of border politics. Readers who enjoy End of Myth by Greg Grandin or Bloodred Lines by Brendan O'Connor should check this out. Reviews saying she lacks supporting evidence are baseless.

A great book and puts the us borders our southern one imparticular, in a larger, global perspective

Literally everyone should read this book

This book is amazing!!

The book is okay if you feel the way the author does and just want to be in an echo chamber and say "rah-rah" to yourself as you read, but if you are looking for something that demonstrates critical thinking and presents cogent evidence to support the author's doctrinaire viewpoints, you will be sorely disappointed. The author's supply of convictions are far outpaced by her supply of facts. I recommend you save your money, or if you really want to read it, then check it out from a library so you won't spend any of your hard-earned money on it. I wish I had. It went into my pile of things to donate to charity.