Sherally Munshi, Unsettling the Border
Monika Batra Kashyap, Unsettling Immigration Laws: Settler Colonialism and the U.S. Immigration Legal System
Harsha Walia, Undoing Border Imperialism [free copy of ebook available here]
Felicity Amaya Schaeffer, Unsettled Borders: The Militarized Science of Surveillance on Sacred Indigenous Land
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Not "A Nation of Immigrants": Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion
Hana Maruyama, How Japanese American Incarceration Was Entangled With Indigenous Dispossession
Leti Volpp, The Indigenous As Alien
Angela R. Riley & Kristen A. Carpenter, Decolonizing Indigenous Migration
Abolish Everything, Week 4: Settler Colonialism and Borders
Allan Lumba, Transpacific Migration, Racial Surplus, and Colonial Settlement
Hana Maruyama, The WWII Incarceration of Japanese Americans Is an Environmental Story
Patrick Wolfe, Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native
Upstander Academy, Indigenous Science and Knowledge
David Naguib Pellow, What is Critical Environmental Justice?
Freedom for Immigrants, The Immigration Detention Syllabus
As you engage with the materials, we encourage you to reflect on the materials in whatever way you process—whether through provocations, questions, or discussions.
To facilitate discussion, we invite you to join us for a panel discussion with scholars and community members on this topic to reflect together and find different ways to challenge our understanding. More information on the panel is available under Scholar Series. We also welcome your own reflections and questions through our reflection form.
If you are looking for asynchronous reflection, we offer the following questions to guide your reflection:
Who or what has informed and shaped your understanding of Indigenous knowledge, science, and epistemology?
In what ways did the readings/videos/podcasts challenge your current understanding of the manifestations of settler colonialism, particularly within immigration?
What does settler decolonization mean to you? What does it require from you, and what are you willing to commit to?
How do you situate the immigrant justice movement while respecting Indigenous sovereignty?
Option 1: Develop a monthly plan outlining how you will commit to learning more about the history of the land you occupy, building relationships with Indigenous peoples, and paying land taxes for your occupation.
Option 2: Read the Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack of Settler Privilege by Dina Gilio-Whitaker and create your own invisible knapsack of settler privilege. Then, critically reflect on how you will facilitate land back and land reparations.
Option 3: Donate time, skills, and/or money to grassroots initiatives such as LANDBACK and Stop the Line 3 Pipeline; invest in Indigenous Mutual Aid Groups; and/or support Indigenous artists and the National Museum of the American Indian. A comprehensive database on local mutual aid networks across the nation is available here.
Option 4: Create a weekly or monthly donation plan based on your income and generational wealth to redistribute your wealth. Use this master list to identify organizations, networks, and funds you plan to commit to.