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Oct 15, 20 roxanne dunbarortiz, author of indians of the americas and blood on the border harsha walias undoing border imperialism demonstrates that geography has certainly not ended, nor has the urge for people to stretch out our arms across borders to create our communities. Walia has been active in migrant justice, indigenous solidarity, feminist, antiracist, and. Borderlands undoing border imperialism harsha walia. Undoing border imperialism is also the piecing together of my own exiled living.
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