This book was a thorough, frankly disheartening look at the processes of US-backed border militarization in non-US countries, and the ways that the US and Israel in particular are pushing to limit the movement of the poor, while opening doors for especially corporations and the rich to be able to move freely between nation-states. Miller's multiple case study sites--Mexico, Guatemala, Puerto Rico, Israel/Palestine, Jordan, Morocco, Kenya/Tanzania, the Philippines, and I may be forgetting a few--reveal just how far the "US" imperial border stretches, especially through US-backed and US-trained border control and the use of technology. There's so much here that it can get overwhelming, and there were times when I felt kind of like "well fuck there's nothing to be done about this," and while I think Miller does a decent job of starting to show us the way out of that sense of despair, but it's rough.

I think, though, because he's so detailed it can get hard to fully follow his frameworks, and it was easy for me to get lost in the shuffle of locations. I also think that while indigeneity is clearly something he's working with, identifying indigenous world-views about land as one of his primary answers to these issues he's grappling with comes kind of late in the text, to the point where I was like "hey are you gonna talk about this at all or??" But I would definitely recommend this book as a way into thinking about security states and what that actually means in practice on a global scale. ( )