Harsha Walia disrupts easy explanations for the migrant and refugee crises, instead showing them to be the inevitable outcomes of the conquest, capitalist globalization, and climate change that are generating mass dispossession worldwide. Border and Rule explores a number of seemingly disparate global geographies with shared logics of border rule that displace, immobilize, criminalize, exploit, and expel migrants and refugees. With her keen ability to connect the dots, Walia demonstrates how borders divide the international working class and consolidate imperial, capitalist, and racist nationalist rule. Ambitious in scope and internationalist in orientation, Border and Rule breaks through American exceptionalist and liberal responses to the migration crisis and cogently maps the lucrative connections between state violence, capitalism, and right-wing nationalism around the world.

Foreword /by Robin D. G. Kelley -- Historic Entanglements of US Border Formation -- US Wars Abroad, Wars at Home -- Dispossession, Deprivation, Displacement: Reframing the Global Migration Crisis-- Bordering Regimes -- Australia and the Pacific Solution -- Fortress Europe -- Temporary Labor Migration and the New Braceros -- The Kafala System in the Gulf States -- Permanently Temporary: Managed Migration in Canada -- Mapping the Global Far Right and the Crisis of Statelessness -- Refusing Reactionary Nationalisms -- Conclusion -- Afterword / by Nick Estes -- References.