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“Empires crumble, capitalism is not inevitable, gender is not biology, whiteness is not immutable, prisons are not inescapable, and borders are not natural law.”
― Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

“After generations of separations and decades of forgetfulness, the mention of the South brings back to our memories ancient years of pain and pleasure. At the turn of the twentieth century, many African Americans left the Southern towns, left the crushing prejudice and prohibition, and moved north to Chicago and New York City, west to Los Angeles and San Diego.

They were drawn by the heady promise of better lives, of equality, fair play, and good old American four-star freedom. Their expectations were at once fulfilled and at the same time dashed to the ground and broken into shards of disappointment.

The sense of fulfillment arose from the fact that there were chances to exchange the dull drudgery of sharecrop farming for protected work under unionized agreements. Sadly for the last thirty years, those jobs have been decreasing as industry became computerized and work was sent to foreign countries. The climate which the immigrants imagined as free of racial prejudice was found to be discriminatory in ways different from the Southern modes and possibly even more humiliating.

A small percentage of highly skilled and fully educated blacks found and clung to rungs on the success ladder. Unskilled and undereducated black workers were spit out by the system like so many undigestible watermelon seeds.

They began to find their lives minimalized, and their selves as persons trivialized. Many members of that early band of twentieth-century pilgrims must have yearned for the honesty of Southern landscapes where even if they were the targets of hate mongers who wanted them dead, they were at least credited with being alive. Northern whites with their public smiles of liberal acceptance and their private behavior of utter rejection wearied and angered the immigrants.”
― Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter

“Remember, never take no cutoffs and hurry along as fast as you can.”
― Joan Didion, Where I Was From

“He was different; innocent of heart, and full of good will, which nobody wanted, this castaway, that, like a man transplanted into another planet, was separated by an immense space from his past and by an immense ignorance from his future.”
― Joseph Conrad, Amy Foster

“If we go back in time long enough, then other than the Africans living in Africa, everybody on earth is a descendant of immigrants who migrated to various parts of the world from humankind's original homeland Africa.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Heart Force One: Need No Gun to Defend Society

“Taxes influence mass migration, like a flock of ducks eagerly and greedily chasing bugs in a field. What better way to shift population from one part of the country to another, than to raise taxes where you want people to leave and lower them where you want them to move?”
― Jarod Kintz, Ducks are the stars of the karaoke bird world

“Right-wing nationalism is a bourgeois nationalism, and in our struggles against capitalist austerity we must emphasize that our enemy arrives in a limousine, and not on a boat.”
― Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

“As ecological breakdown triggers tipping points, as agricultural output declines, as mass displacement undermines political stability, and as cities are ruined by rising seas, the environmental, social and material infrastructure that underpins the possibility of growth â€� and indeed the possibility of organised civilisation â€� will fall apart.”
― Jason Hickel, Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World

“As if she couldn’t quite allow herself to enjoy the pleasures of one world without being pulled into the other. Her home was always waiting for her.”
― Christy Lefteri, Songbirds

“Leaving home but going back home: once you crossed the ocean you were always on the wrong side. That was the lot of the immigrant, belonging everywhere but nowhere. Displaced, and unplaced.”
― Alison Booth

“If men and women need freedom and mobility, they also need a sense of tradition and belonging. There is nothing retrograde about roots. The postmodern cult of the migrant, which sometimes succeeds in making migrants sound even more enviable than rock stars, is a good deal too supercilious in this respect. It is a hangover from the modernist cult of the exile, the Satanic artist who scorns the suburban masses and plucks an elitist virtue out of his enforced dispossession. The problem at the moment is that the rich have mobility while the poor have locality. Or rather, the poor have locality until the rich get their hands on it. The rich are global and the poor are local - though just as poverty is a global fact, so the rich are coming to appreciate the benefits of locality.”
― Terry Eagleton, After Theory

“I am a student of migration stories. I am pulled toward accounts of lives rearranged by the journey from one place to another.”
― Elamin Abdelmahmoud, Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces

“On the rare occasions when Romani Gypsies meet south Asians from India or Pakistan, they are astonished to discover that they can understand many of the words these people use in their language, such as Hindi, Urdu and Punjabi. There is thus a connection with eastern Europe - Romania and Hungary - but also with far-away India.”
― Yaron Matras

“I believe that it is not beneficial either to idealize Romani culture or treat it as exotic. Romani culture is not simply Indian or Asian, though some aspects of it clearly reflect its historical origins in India, language being one of the most obvious. Nor is it inherently a culture of poverty or a culture of resistance or defiance against mainstream norms.”
― Yaron Matras, I Met Lucky People: The Story of the Romani Gypsies

“Ensuring labor protections and citizenship status is the most ethical and effective counter to the far right's anti-migrant racism. Otherwise, attacks on migrant workers -- buttressed by ubiquitous anti-Indigenous, anti-Black, anti-Muslim, anti-Roma and anti-Latinx racism -- will continue to work as intended for capitalist interests: channeling irregular migration into precarious migration, lowering the wage floor for all workers, and expanding carceral governance.”
― Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

“Territorial diffusion relies on biometric surveillance and disciplinary practices within the state, as well as imperial outsourcing. Put another way, the border is elastic, and the magical line can exist anywhere. Crossing the border does not end the struggle for undocumented people, because the border is mobile and can be enforced anywhere within the nation-state. Internal bordering differentiates those within the nation-state who are citizens from those who are not.”
― Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

“It wasn't that easy to leave your established home, the place made sacred by the graves of your parents, and move on to who knew where.”
― Valentin Rasputin, Money for Maria and Borrowed time: Two village tales

“Many biologists are like migratory birds---they nest and reproduce in the temperate zone, but regularly migrate to warmer climes in search of spiritual fodder.”
― Vojtech Novotny, Notebooks from New Guinea: Field Notes of a Tropical Biologist

“The money came in bundles tied with elastic bands, in exchange for the promise of a lorry ride across the border. In many cases, people were dumped off before they even reached the border, and so they were back to square one, back in Turkey, back in Ali’s Café, but this time without money. It was groundhog day, a Sisyphean sentence â€� to endlessly go up and down the airless corridor that never changed, though everything else changed. And never to arrive.”
― Kapka Kassabova, Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe

“In exile, the furniture is ugly, expensive, all brought at the same time in the same store and in too much of a hurry[.]”
― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

“Al usar en una lengua la palabra que sirve para eso en la otra, resuenan los atributos de una y de la otra: si uno dice Dame fuego cuando ellos dicen Dame una luz ¿qué no se aprende sobre el fuego, la luz y sobre el acto de dar”
― Yuri Herrera, Signs Preceding the End of the World

“The unbridled hymnal

becomes a prayer for sustenance.”
― Sneha Subramanian Kanta

“A historian reveals that excavations at Adichanalu determine that Thirai Meelar which means sea farers traveled across continents. It was considered a talent to be able to return back to the home turf. The reading led toward another instance of beauty. Tamil sailors used the same technique as sea-turtles to return home. Sea-turtles floated along sea currents but did not swim in oceans. I sit like a harbinger of tides along the coast, unaware of the migration or home, in search of sea-turtles.”
― Sneha Subramanian Kanta

“Even chrysanthemums on the sidewalk shrunk in withered winter
muffled language of syntax and scythe soothe the opaque of a body.”
― Sneha Subramanian Kanta

“F.B. «C'è ancora qualcuno che parla dei siriani? Spariti, inghiottiti dal silenzio. Tutti pensano che la guerra laggiù sia finita.»
D.Q. «Invece hanno dovuto "arrangiarsi", cercare rifugio in Francia o in Germania. Oppure li abbiamo venduti a Erdogan, abbiamo pagato il sultano turco perché li trattenesse lì. Gli afghani invece li venderemo agli ayatollah iraniani, costruiremo con fondi europei dei bei campi profughi con le tende allineate, e con altri soldi pagheremo gli iraniani perché non li facciano uscire. Sì, siamo capaci di fare anche questo...»”
― Domenico Quirico, Addio Kabul

“Von einem Ort zum anderen. Dass nichts zufällig ist oder umsonst. Unbedingt. Man weiß es. Man weiß es so sehr, dass das gar kein Thema ist, dass sich die Frage gar nicht stellt. Man kommt einfach, man geht einfach. Man weiß, dass man dort, wo man ist, richtig ist, selbst wenn Menschen mit Fackeln vor deiner Tür das Gegenteil schreien. So ein Gefühl habe ich eigentlich nur, wenn ich in dein Gesicht schaue. Dann habe ich so eine Kraft in mir, als wäre ich richtig, wo ich bin. Sonst nicht. Sonst nie.”
― Sasha Marianna Salzmann, Meteorites

“Quoted on page 50 of: JACK PARSONS ON HUMAN POPULATION COMPETITION A short synopsis of his major work by Edmund Davey
ISBN: 0-9541978-3-6

"No quantity of atom bombs could stem the tide of billions � who will someday � erupt [from] the poor southern part of the world � into the relatively accessible spaces of the rich Northern Hemisphere looking for survival."

President Boumedienne of Algeria.”
― Houari Boumediene

“Page 550:
CG Darwin—grandson of the great Charles—argued in The Next Million Years (1978), an important book, that if humankind as a whole comprised two subtypes, Homo contracipiens (contraceptive practitioners) and Homo progenitivus (non- or lower-practitioners), then the second type would inevitable come to dominate, and finally exclude, the first. Once H. progenitivus had ousted H. contracipiens, the group would increase with even greater intensity until it hit some barrier; an effective population control policy; lack of food or some other basic resource.”
― Jack Parsons, Human Population Competition: A Study of the Pursuit of Power Through Numbers

“Page 193:
Any attempt to increase the population size of one ethnic group relative to others is confrontational. As such, it is clearly not meant to dissuade ethnic leaders and nationalist populations against ethnic conflict. In fact, the goal of increasing ethnic populations is based on the underlying view that, with successful demographic engineering, an ethnic group will gain dominance over others. Similarly, the methods for population augmentation involve processes that are antagonistic to selected ethnic groups. Indeed, relocating population, forcing assimilation, and encouraging population growth of a target population are all antagonistic acts. Such confrontational policies are resented by those they are meant to affect, and are bound to provoke an intensification of nationalist sentiment and amplify demands for ethnic rights (be they cultural or secessionist). â€� Since ethnic regulation implies the elimination or suppression of ‛otherâ€� ethnicities, instead of easing inter-ethnic animosities and improving inter-ethnic relations, the demographic struggle for power portends the perpetuation of inter-ethnic conflict.”
― Milica Zarkovic Bookman, The Demographic Struggle for Power: The Political Economy of Demographic Engineering in the Modern World

“Once the new children had become your allies, it was wrenching to leave them.”
― Jennifer Egan, The Candy House