Border abolitionism: Migrants’ containment and the genealogies of struggles and rescue

Martina Tazzioli

Published by Manchester University Press 2023

Border abolitionism

Migrants’ containment and the genealogies of struggles and rescue

Martina Tazzioli

In the series Rethinking Borders

https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526160942

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About this book

This book mobilises an abolitionist approach to contemporary borders, combining critical migration scholarship and carceral abolitionism literature. It argues that a critique of borders involves rethinking the right to mobility as part of processes of commoning.

Author / Editor information

Martina Tazzioli is Reader in Politics and Technology at Goldsmiths, University of London

Reviews

CHOICE: Recommended

'Martina Tazzioli’s book challenges us to connect struggles for the freedom of movement to commoning practices and abolitionist worlding projects, to decompartmentalise migration, border and refugee studies. To build these transversal alliances, Tazzioli grounds border abolitionism in migrants’ escapes, autonomous mobilities and spaces, and “free spots,” beginning not from state enclosure projects, but from actually existing abolitionist practices. Border abolitionism calls on us to do more than document the needless drownings, wasted times and choked lives or the injustices of contemporary migration control regimes. To practices border abolition, we must learn from migrants how to live and build institutions otherwise.'
Lauren Martin, Associate Professor of Political Geography, Durham University

Border abolitionism is an intellectually ambitious, creative, and original book, linking critical border, migration, and refugee studies to the contemporary insights of carceral abolitionism. Tazzioli starts not from normative abstractions but instead from the material and practical facts of migration and the confinement continuum that chokes migrants’ and refugees’ projects both to move across borders and then to stay and re-make their lives. This book’s refreshingly innovative intervention thus advances an idea of abolition that extends far beyond the border, in order to understand the struggles of migrants and citizens together. It will have a lasting impact on scholarship and activism.
Nicholas De Genova, editor of The Borders of “Europe”: Autonomy of Migration, Tactics of Bordering

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Front Matter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1 The zero- sum rights game Border abolitionism as an analytical gaze Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
2 ‘Confine to protect’ Hybrid spaces of migration containment Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	46
3 Participatory confinement Extractive humanitarianism and asylum seekers’ unpaid labour Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	80
4 Towards a genealogy of migrant struggles and border violence Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	106
5 A history of mountain runaways and rescue Migrants at the Alpine border Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	136
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	158
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Audience: General/trade;College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Keywords: abolitionism; migration; struggles; confinement; borders; memory; solidarity; carcerality; Europe; refugees

eBook

Published: July 11, 2023
ISBN: 9781526160942