Harsha Walia has played a central role in building some of North America\'s most innovative, diverse, and effective new movements.
This is both a manual and a memoir, a guide to the world and a guide to the organizer\'s.
One of the most rewarding things about this book is its capaciousness--astute insights that emerge out of careful organizing linked to the voices of a generation of strugglers, trying to find their own analysis to build their own movements to make this world our own.
Besides being brilliantly conceived and presented, this book is the first extended work on immigration that refuses to make First Nations sovereignty invisible.--Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, author of Indians of the Americas and Blood on the Border Harsha Walia\'s Undoing Border Imperialism demonstrates that geography has certainly not ended, and nor has the urge for people to stretch out our arms across borders to create our communities.
Walia is an outstanding organizer who has done a lot of thinking and can write--not a common combination.
Within the wealthy countries, Canada\'s No One Is Illegal is one of the most effective organizations of migrants and allies.
Praise for Undoing Border Imperialism Border Imperialism is an apt conceptualization for capturing the politics of massive displacement due to capitalist neoglobalization.
Harsha Walia is a South Asian activist, writer, and popular educator rooted in emancipatory movements and communities for over a decade.
The author grounds the book in collective vision, with short contributions from over twenty organizers and writers from across North America.
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.
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.
That this brilliant organizer and theorist has found time to share her wisdom in this book is a tremendous gift to us all.--Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine Undoing Border Imperialism combines academic discourse, lived experiences of displacement, and movement-based practices into an exciting new book.
Harsha Walia has played a central role in building some of North America\'s most innovative, diverse, and effective new movements
