Harsha Walia

Harsha Walia is a South Asian activist and writer based in Vancouver, unceded Coast Salish Territories. She has been involved in community-based grassroots migrant justice, feminist, anti-racist, Indigenous solidarity, anti-capitalist, Palestinian liberation, and anti-imperialist movements, including No One is Illegal and Women’s Memorial March Committee. She is formally trained in law, works with women in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, and is the author of Undoing Border Imperialism (2013).

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  • Essential Work, Disposable Workers

    Migration, Capitalism and Class

    By Mostafa Henaway  Foreword by Harsha Walia     Forthcoming July 2023

    A book about the massive expansion precarious work under neoliberalism and how migrant workers are challenging the conditions of their hyper-exploitation through struggles for worker rights and justice.

  • Border and Rule

    Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

    By Harsha Walia     February 2021

    An urgent, global account of the migration crisis and the function of borders across political, social, cultural, and economic systems.