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

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