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environmental liberals blind spots to militarism capitalism and environmental racism
decarbonizing requires demilitarization decolonization etc
***’The positioning of workers against indigenous environmentalists also invisibilizes land defenders and water protectors who labor in highly skilled, noncapitalist Indigenous economies…’

‘A muscular state is actually required to discipline and criminalize populations under austerity regimes. Therefore those who believe the state can protect us against capitalism misrecognize the state as having “withered” under globalization.’
need to ensure labor protections and citizenship status—most effective and ethical way to counter far R anti migrant racism****

far R policies make it worse for everyone and then liberal PR stunts to help migrants don’t do any systemic benefits but then make it seem like ‘we’re helping others before our own’ and fuels R
diff waves of racists movements are the things that drive the unification of the R white working class
border cannot work against globalized capital bc the border itself is a method for capital

extreme ex of manufacturing national working class utopia is labor zionism kibbutzim etc
used to put citizens vs non
making of ‘foreigner’
migrant crises framed as burden on white citizens
austerity regimes argue that scarce resources can’t be shared w ‘others’
manipulation for extraction
ex: Brexit campaign funded by 5 of UKs richest businessmen

‘Liberal multiculturalism also assumes a false solidarity between the racialized working class and the racialized elite, who are directly implicated in oppression as bosses landlords and agents of the state’

rise of far R as reactionary to Grdepression + neoliberalism & libsm but economic redistribution won’t automatically alleviate racism
class identity thru whiteness was forged as antiblackness
nostalgia for heyday of union work Fordist economy ignores how my cv it was subsidized by colonial extraction and racialized gendered oppressive economy + policies

‘Immigration and citizenship are race-making regimes’
major issue for bengali ppl in india, rohingya in myanmar, Dominicans of Haitian descent in DR, bidoon ppl across gulf esp kuwait,
and ofc exceptions are made only when convenient to ruling class or maintaining whatever ethnic purity they are desiring
citizenship is a COMMODITY

concerted rise of far R in EUr & antiimmigration is main unifying reason voters support them.
blaming immigration for impacts of. wilber globalization
wealthy countries like nordic are racist and extract indig land historically
denmark as some of most restrictive immig laws in europe
anti muslim racism, not new it’s part of euro history inherited from imperialism

Duterte + Bolsonaro 2 of world's most openly fascist leaders.
death squads, kill lists
PENAL POPULISM
Philippines world's deadliest country for land defenders.
major land grabs and killings for agribusiness and extraction projects. deforestation spikes. loggers illegally invading (lethally) and no regulation enforcement.
prescription against recessions is continued genocidal colonialism and voracious capitalism

casteism, religious chauvinism + colonialism combined. 'almost from moment india became sov nation it turned into a colonial power'
illegal annexation of indig adivasi land + KASHMIR worlds most militarized zone, open air prison, settler colonial project. killings torture +++
IndiaBanglad border has highest # deaths at hands of enforcement agency, and justified thru anti-muslim racism, Bangladeshis called invadersetc

horrible + dangerous alliance of trump netanyahu modi. all basically doing the same thing
while White Nationalism is anti semitic and racist, embrace of zionism & hindutva is embraced bc of enthonationalism and demographic racism that links them all.
WN glorify Israel ethnonat state, like Modi islamophobic af but trades heavy w UAE Saudi.
hindutva forces also lionize fascist leaders for goal of racist purity etc.

far R nationalist networks becoming paradoxically increasingly transnational. myth of lone wolf, but 1/3 of white supr killers ww were inspired by & connected to one of the other 350 attacks in recent yrs.
in US, WS 71% of civilian terrorist attacks.
racial citizenship is a unifying issue
also free speech but then paradoxical censorship of undesired narratives, for ex purging of left wing academics

SAWP program. agribusiness interests have major influence on these policies to meet their needs. LOBBY
meical deportation ableist. all CA's richest CEOs make more in 1 day than avg worker earns in 1 yr
Caregiver program follows colonial history of residential schools training ing kids in domestic work. entrenched care work as 'low skill' in policies.
happened bc of racist categories for preferred nationalities.

Canada Temp Foreign Wrkr Program. abhorrent conditions, 100s complaints each yr and rarely addressed. migrants spatially isolated from other workers and denied rights.
Canadian myth of multiculturalism + TFWPs which reinforce ideological foreignness of racialized ppl.
'preferred' nationalities explicit. white settlers as hosts (on indig land) to welcome racialized immigrants into canadian multiculturalism

kafala system--contractual dependence leads to egregious abuses. passport confiscation, assault, etc. each countries ministry of interior oversees these contracts and thus let it happen. many deaths esp in construction. no regulations are enforced. carceral immobility and exploitation. working insane hours w no food, etc.

Gulf Cooperation Council. non-nationals=67% labor force
kafala system. employer tied. empl permission for anything
ORIENTALISM lens-hyperexploitative but ppl attempt to frame it as a cultural issue and that they r inherently authoritarian, when in fact it's a SYSTEM thing.
AND, bureaucratic tenets of kafala system originated during British colonial rule in Gulf.
contingent on W-backed state formation of G monarchies

2020, NYT valued women's unpaid labor at $10.9trill. 'unpaid gendered work lays the foundation for underpaid domestic work in wage economy'
most domestic workers in high income countries are migrants. here, austerity measures have privatized care work and shifted feminized care work away from public institutions into the private and domain of the home

FEATURES OF MIGRANT WORKER PROGRAMS
state-sanctioned programs of indentured work. bound to 1 employer, unable to leave them & thus v exploitable and threatened.
legalized segregation. cast as racialized outsiders, classified temporary + foreign.
neoliberal insourcing-reinforces border w/in intl working class. maintains global division of labor.
distinct model of racialization
carceral regime-intense surveil+disciplin

'Migrant workers provide liberal capitalist interests with cheapened labor without altering the racial social order through permanent migration.'
temp worker programs are systemic tools of exploitation.
seasonal migration has been happening for so long, not new.
awful ex's of sabotage exploitation and abuse
Cheney was former chairman of Halliburton & still had stock in it when it was rewarded a $7bil govt contract

EU arms company contracts fuel conflicts in Africa & profit while helping fortress europe. maintain financial power and land grabs over "former" colonies.
'In reality, the entire EU is unified in expanding maritime interdiction, preventing migration and externalizing the border, especially into Africa.'

govt's vocab of 'anti-smuggling/trafficking' regarding migrants just makes blame fall on individs or NGOs instead of holding policies accountable. partnerships w dictators etc, who comply in militarized tactics and enforcement. for ex w al-Bashir; Saudi Arabia funding RSF militias from sudan to yemen.
then, liberal welcome culture erases EU compliance. refugee claim rejection rates in Germ doubled btwn 2016-19

EU externalization borders on 3 routes
western R was primary one in 90s-00s. 000s migrants immobilized in morocco today. 2018 EU-MO plan
eastern-then busier. greek islands are hotspots where ppl contained. Moria camp, 40% minors.psychological war, lots of suicide attempts. EU turkey deal 2016. hostile balkans
central-deadliest.gaddafi signed border external plan w italy, who forcibly intercepted &returned migrants

calais border crossings 1mill in 2015, 84k in 2018, but the death rate has increased
problem with using spectacle as route to empathy means that these atrocities need to happen more often or get worse so that it doesn’t get ‘boring’/same etc
border externalization is CORNERSTONE of EU policy. eu military training ppl in africa. $38bill to be spent on EU border security 2021-2027

Australia-history of offshore detention via colonization. prisoners shipped to AUS. “terra nullius”
land registration systems aka land theft. endlavement in oceania continued long.
Manus Island abysmal conditions
Nauru complete destruction for resources and they see no profit.
resource colonialism, forced dependency.
offshore detention used to isolate ref and to create liminal legal categories and rights.

externalization as border imperialism
offshoring the duty, deals w ‘transit countries’ to detain refugees there before Europe, so blame is on these countries and they also avoid #s.
this has also become a method of imperialism; baiting countries w aid agreements in exchange for this offshoring.
remain in mx policy. 100thousands detained inmx. disappeared too.
ADavis—refugee mvmnt is our civil rights mvmnt

territorial diffusion—the border can exist anywhere (and the threat)
commodified inclusion—deliberately precarious circumstances. 52% of companies threaten to call ICE on workers during union drives
discursive control—diff btwn migrant refugee immigrant. who is deserving and why.
Aimé Césaire condemning Euros for tolerating nazism before it was inflicted on them. bars.