{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2F1ebdaa55-1b50-4e32-83e3-e9acf30a8a06","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"","title":"Crisis at the Border: Contestation, Sovereignty, and Statelessness w/Harsha Walia & Suchitra Vijayan","description":"Suchitra Vijayan and Harsha Walia discuss contested border regions and the crises of statelessness experienced by the people who live there.\n\nScholar Hardeep Dhillon will moderate this discussion between acclaimed writers Suchitra Vijayan and Harsha Walia about contestations over borders, sovereignty, and nationalism and national identity.\n\nThis discussion will reference both writers\u2019 most recent books: Suchitra Vijayan\u2019s Midnight\u2019s Borders: A People\u2019s History of Modern India and Harsha Walia\u2019s Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism.\n----------------------------------------------------\n\nSpeakers:\n\nSuchitra Vijayan was born and raised in Madras, India. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post, GQ, The Boston Review, The Hindu, and Foreign Policy, and she has appeared on NBC news. A Barrister by training, she previously worked for the United Nations war crimes tribunals in Yugoslavia and Rwanda before co-founding the Resettlement Legal Aid Project in Cairo, which gives legal aid to Iraqi refugees. She is an award-winning photographer, the founder and executive director of the Polis Project, a hybrid research and journalism organization. She lives in New York.\n\nHarsha Walia is the award-winning author of Undoing Border Imperialism (2013) and, most recently, Border and Rule. Trained in the law, she is a community organizer and campaigner in migrant justice, anti-capitalist, feminist, and anti-imperialist movements, including No One Is Illegal and Women\u2019s Memorial March Committee.\n\nHardeep Dhillon attended U.C. Berkeley before completing her doctorate in History with a secondary in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (WGS) at Harvard University. Her dissertation examined the global development of U.S. immigration and border controls through the lens of Asian exclusion at the turn of the twentieth century. Hardeep\u2019s larger research interests include histories of law, mobility, empire, racial capitalism, and settler colonialism. In Fall 2021, Hardeep will join the American Bar Foundation (ABF) as the incoming postdoctoral fellow in the ABF/National Science Foundation Fellowship Program in Law and Inequality.\n\nWatch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/IfJ8-2IDOiE\n\nBuy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org\n\nFollow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/bc071fbf-c6f1-4af0-964c-d75f62c576cd/artworks-ewuzmvzykuh1utqc-yis1ga-t3000x3000.jpg"}