Harsha Walia

Harsha Walia
Harsha Walia in 2013
Born
Bahrain
NationalityCanadian[1]
Alma materUniversity of British Columbia
Occupation(s)Activist, writer

Harsha Walia is a Canadian activist and writer based in Vancouver. She has been involved with No one is illegal, the February 14 Women's Memorial March Committee, the Downtown Eastside Women's Centre, and several Downtown Eastside housing justice coalitions.[2][3] Walia has been active in immigration politics, Indigenous rights, feminist, anti-racist, anti-statist, and anti-capitalist movements for over a decade.[4]

Walia is the author of Undoing Border Imperialism (2013) and Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism (2021), co-author of Never Home: Legislating Discrimination in Canadian Immigration (2015), and Red Women Rising: Indigenous Women Survivors in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (2019).[5] She has also contributed to over thirty academic journals, anthologies, magazines, and newspapers.[4]

  1. ^ Beckett, Lois (7 April 2021). "'A system of global apartheid': author Harsha Walia on why the border crisis is a myth". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
  2. ^ Collective, Kino-nda-niimi (2014). The Winter We Danced: Voices from the Past, the Future, and the Idle No More Movement. Winnipeg: Arbeiter Ring Publishing. p. 436. ISBN 9781894037518.
  3. ^ "Author, activist Harsha Walia to speak on migrant justice". news.ok.ubc.ca. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
  4. ^ a b Walia (2013), p. 315.
  5. ^ MacLeod, Andrew (10 January 2020). "Harsha Walia: Looking Ahead with the New BCCLA Head". The Tyee. Retrieved 6 March 2020.