Katie McClellan’s Reviews > Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism > Status Update

“…our era’s migration crisis is not marked by human mobility but rather the reality of mass displacement and immobility, produced by the multifarious and interwoven systems of globalized capitalism, imperialism, and climate catastrophe.”

Crazy that migration is a natural phenomenon in nature (including humans) and yet we are so concerned with stopping and regulating it.

“Intervention in Afghanistan rarely receives media attention anymore, even though civilians killed by U.S. backed forces and air strikes in Afghanistan in 2019 outnumbered those killed by the taliban or isis.” (Written in 2020 before we pulled out) crazy tho

“The convergence of “tough on crime” and “tough on immigration” sustains racialized control, while also ensuring a compliant labor force through the containment of surplus labor that exists alongside the outsourcing of maquiladora labor and the insourcing of migrant labor. Mass incarceration and mass deportation within neoliberalism thus serve as key techniques of conterminous social and labor control.”

First gen Border patrol agents were apparently kkk members and Texas rangers (rangers kidnapped runaway slaves, hunted and murdered indigenous ppl and Mexicans living in contested Texas territory)