We are very excited to announce that the next Tertulia Migrante book will be Harsha Walia’s Undoing Border Imperialism (AK Press, 2013). The book combines academic discourse, lived experiences of displacement, and movement-based practices inspired by No One is Illegal. Walia reformulates immigrant rights movements within a transnational analysis of capitalism, labor exploitation, settler colonialism, state-building, and racialized empire to provide the alternative conceptual frameworks of border imperialism and decolonization. At its heart, the book wrestles with the question of how we build movements that address the immediate material needs of migrants (such as finding pathways to citizenship), while also building a broader anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist analysis which upholds indigenous sovereignty and challenges ideas about nation-states, borders, and legality. Needless to say, it is an immensely thought-provoking book, which really aligns with MRM’s analysis. 

For each meeting, we ask that you please prepare one question or short reflection to share with the group.

PLEASE FILL OUT THIS FORM BEFORE ATTENDING OUR FIRST MEETING.

The book readings will be divided as such:

Meeting #1 (02/12/20):

Set community guidelines

Foreword and Introduction (ix - 32; 36 pages)

Meeting #2 (02/26/20):

Chapters 1 (35-93; 58 pages)

Meeting #3 (03/11/20):

Chapter 2 (97-169; 72 pages)

Meeting #4 (03/25/20):

Chapters 3 and 4 (171-244; 73 pages)

Meeting #5 (04/08/20):

Chapter 5 and epilogue (247-283; 36 pages)

Closing reflections

Details: 

Time: 6-7:30pm

Location: TBD

Please let us know if you have any questions/feedback from prior sessions.