Border politics

## **Border politics is bullshit**

* “Why Marxists oppose immigration controls” by Niklas Albin Svensson https://www.socialist.net/why-marxists-oppose-immigration-controls.htm (Trotskyist publication)
* “Alaska-Chukotka: when cousins reunite” by Sarah Hurst https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/odr/alaska-chukotka-when-cousins-reunite/ [EN]
* “Ukraine axes English & Crimean Tatar TV to launch risky Russian channel for occupied Donbas and Crimea” by Halya Coynash http://khpg.org/en/index.php?id=1579377963
* “Canada is Fake” by Alex V Green https://theoutline.com/post/8686/canada-is-fake [EN]
* "NRC in Assam: Ensure Justice for Excluded" https://cpim.org/pressbriefs/nrc-assam-ensure-justice-excluded [EN] (supports racist National Register, a racist anti-immigrant citizenship system in India)
* “Fences have big effects on land and wildlife around the world that are rarely measured” by Alex McInturff, Christine Wilkinson and Wenjing Xu https://theconversation.com/fences-have-big-effects-on-land-and-wildlife-around-the-world-that-are-rarely-measured-147797 [EN]

### **Research Articles**

* “Borders and Ethnic Conflict: The Soviet Experiment in Ethno-Territorial Proliferation” by Terry Martin https://sci-hub.st/10.2307/41018792 [PDF, 1.85MB, EN]

### **News Articles**

* “Ainu people lay ancient claim to Kurile Islands: The hunters and fishers who lost their land to the Russians and Japanese are gaining the confidence to demand their rights, reports Terry McCarthy” by Terry McCarthy https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/ainu-people-lay-ancient-claim-to-kurile-islands-the-hunters-and-fishers-who-lost-their-land-to-the-1552879.html [EN]
* "CPI-M Supports SC On National Register of Citizens for Tripura" by Ribhu Ranjan https://www.thecitizen.in/index.php/en/NewsDetail/index/2/15209/CPI-M-Supports-SC-On-National-Register-of-Citizens-for-Tripura [EN] (National Register is a racist anti-immigrant citizenship system in India)
* "Pleased with NRC outcome: Assam CPM" by Hiranya Barman https://www.telegraphindia.com/north-east/pleased-with-nrc-outcome-assam-cpm/cid/1702388 [EN]
* “‘Refugees welcome here’: UK marchers take to streets with message of support” by Emma Graham-Harrison and Lizzy Davis https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/12/refugees-welcome-uk-marchers-un-warns-war-syria-million-displaced [EN] (owned by Scott Trust Limited)

### **Magazine Articles**

* “How to Justify a Crisis” by Nick Riemer https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/10/refugee-crisis-europe-zizek-habermas-singer-greece-syria-academia/ [EN]
* "A World Without Borders" by Gareth Dale https://www.jacobinmag.com/2015/09/refugee-crisis-merkel-europe-germany/ [EN] (mentions some of the anti-refugee attitudes on the left)

### **Blog Posts**

* "How borders dehumanize us" by Joshua Collins https://medium.com/muros-invisibles/how-borders-dehumanize-us-f51050fff40a [EN]
* “Karafuto: Japan’s Lost Prefecture” by Noah Oskow https://unseenjapan.com/karafuto-japan-lost-prefecture/ [EN]
* “Sakhalin Island: Japan’s Final Frontier” by Noah Oskow https://unseenjapan.com/sakhalin-island-japan-russia-native-population/ [EN]
* "Becoming Japanese: The Story of the Indigenous Uilta of Sakhalin" by Noah Oskow https://unseenjapan.com/uilta-sakhalan-japan-part-1/ [EN]
* "The Uilta: an Invisible Indigenous Group in Japan" by Noah Oskow https://unseenjapan.com/uilta-part-2-invisible-indigenous/ [EN]

### **Books**

* “Anarchists Against the Wall: Direct Action and Solidarity with the Palestinian Popular Struggle” by Uri Gordon and Ohal Grietzer http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=FE63C04EC736A2755C23A0025047488D [MOBI, 689kb, EN]
* “Border as Method, Or, the Multiplication of Labor” by Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=7EA5115C42861390D60BFBF21FA42F89 [PDF, 1MB, EN]
* “Inter/Nationalism: Decolonizing Native America and Palestine” by Steven Salaita http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=124EB8C61B543788214CC548B63C78E3 [PDF, 2MB, EN]

### **Films and TV series**

* “Jäämeri 30 päivässä” (2014) https://areena.yle.fi/1-3835047 [10 EP, 43 min, FI SUB] (Finnish state-owned media)
* “Suomensukuiset 30 päivässä” (2013) https://areena.yle.fi/1-3826502 [10 EP, 43 min, FI SUB] (Finnish state-owned media)

### **Music**

* “Oy, Ir Narishe Tsionistn - Oh, You Foolish Little Zionists (Yiddish Anti-Zionist Song)” by Daniel Kahn and uploaded by GETchan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQMRwk8WDd4 [2:17, YI SUB, EN SUB, RU SUB, YI, EN, RU]

### **Videos**

* “Building a Border at 4,600 meters” uploaded by Vox https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECch2g1\_6PQ [13:26, EN SUB, RU SUB, KO SUB, EN] (left-liberal, owned by Vox Media, Inc.)
* “KGB had eleven reasons to refuse your trip abroad. Soviet tourism #ussr, #kgb” uploaded by USHANKA SHOW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn0RHAe-VQE [19:24, EN] (Soviet Ukranian immigrated to USA)
* “Why Marxists must fight for open borders” uploaded by Socialist Appeal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lphscvPy3FM [53:09, EN] (Trotskyist publication)
* “Tibet is China's ticket to hegemony” uploaded by CapsianReport https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEo4NNo7oaM [15:36, EN]
* "Kuril Islands: Pacific Hot Spot in the Cold War" uploaded by The Cold War https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekQU5nVCR\_A [16:18, EN SUB, EN]
* "Who Are The Sami?" uploaded by Cogito https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=\_6sQPJvGaO0 [24:49, EN SUB, EN]
* "The conflict in Kashmir, explained" uploaded by Vox https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyayif\_nla [10:08, EN SUB, EN] (left-liberal, owned by Vox, Inc.)
* "Abolish Borders" uploaded by Saint Andrewisim https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u00X1XPQBnM [21:40, EN SUB, EN]
* "The Space Border That Could Seal Us on Earth" uploaded by Johnny Harris https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY8Rv6PaXVI [17:04, EN SUB, EN]

### **Websites**

* “Native Land” https://native-land.ca/
* “無國界社運 Borderless Movement” https://borderless-hk.com/
* “Border Violence Monitoring Network” https://www.borderviolence.eu/

### **Archived**

* http://archive.is/JGISM [EN] - Inuit communities transcend Russian, Danish, Canadian and USian borders
* http://archive.is/lOdXm [EN] **-** Colonial borders divide entire nations / ethnic groups
* https://archive.vn/ehf4A [EN] - philosophical question of what is ethical when a country from the Global South is actively harming an internal colony of a country in the Global North

### **Notes**

* National Register is a racist anti-immigrant citizenship system in India
* Borders don’t defend ecosystems. Borders interrupt not only the free movement of people but also the migratory patterns of animals and are an absolute waste of resources and energy
* While neo-Stalinists align themselves with neo-Nazis and other far-right ethno-nationalists and ultra-nationalists during the Euroscepticism movement in pursuit of isolationist populist agenda to fragment the European Union, the non-ML Marxist, socialist and anarchist positions is that if the borders were open with migrants and refugees being able to travel freely, EU as a super-state would not be able to sustain itself without hard borders or the police; and thus they advocate for ending racialised oppressions which inform border control
* Historical places for pirates and last resistance to the concept of nation-states were recuperated into global capitalist hegemony by violently transforming them into transnational finance hubs and tax havens