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

“…Through anti-trafficking legislation and the language of harm, the state emerges as the protector of victims even though state practices are the primary force in constructing vulnerability.”

“Like rape culture, victim-blaming responses to border deaths put responsibility on people for “choosing” to make unsafe journeys.”

America causes displacement by meddling in international affairs (violently) and then blames migrants when they reach our borders and refuse to help them and then commit more atrocities against them.