Harsha Walia (she/her) has organized in feminist, anti-racist, migrant justice, abolitionist and anti-colonial movements for over two decades. Harsha is the award-winning author of Undoing Border Imperialism (2013, AK Press) and Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism (2021, Haymarket Books). She is also the co-author of a number of participatory and community-engaged works, such as Never Home: Legislating Discrimination in Canadian Immigration and Red Women Rising: Indigenous Women in Vancouver Downtown Eastside. Trained in the law, Harsha has been organizing as an internationalist with comrades locally to internationally, while her day job is in frontline anti-violence and gender equity work.

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Abolish Border Imperialism: Migration, Racial Capitalism, and Empire

‍This talk will situate the border within a global analysis of migration, gendered displacement, racial capitalism, settler colonialism, and rising fascism globally, while emphasizing the urgent necessity of abolishing border imperialism through transnational solidarities.