From “refugee” to “migrant” in Calais solidarity activism: Re-staging undocumented migration for a future politics of asylum

Millner, Naomi

doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2011.07.005

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“…In analytically understanding the inequalities reproduced within the noborder movement itself, the discussion on privilege is important for activists (King, 2016, p. 190;Millner, 2011).…”

Section: Privilege and Solidaritymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Such a demarcation is usually made while framing strategies and actions (e.g., King, 2016;Millner, 2011;Rigby & Schlembach, 2013). Noborder-activism is defined as 'solidarity' in contrast to humanitarian 'help' or 'charity', which for noborder implies a hierarchically stratified relationship between those who give and those who receive.…”

Section: Approaching Conflicts the Anarchist Way: Prefigurative Politicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The literature regarding internal, relational processes in the movement has been growing (e.g., Blumberg & Rechitsky, 2015;English, 2017;King, 2016;Millner, 2011;Rigby & Schlembach, 2013). I build up on these studies' insights on the beauty and difficulty of building solidarity networks between people who differ in their self-definition (i.e., as refugee, undocumented, citizen, privileged, person of color, activist, volunteer).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Noborder Movement: Interpersonal Struggle with Political Ideals

Gauditz

2017

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Over the last decade, self-organized refugee protests in Europe have increased. One strand of activism in Europe, noborder, involves a transnational network of people who are heterogeneous with regards to legal status, race, or individual history of migration, but who share decolonial, anti-capitalist ideals that criticize the nation-state. Noborder activists embrace prefigurative strategies, which means enacting political ideals in their everyday life. This is why this article asks: How do noborder activists try to meet their political ideals in their everyday practices, and what effects do these intentions entail? Noborder practices take place at the intersection of self-organization as a reference to migrants' legal status or identity, on the one hand, and self-organization as anti-hierarchical forms of anarchist-autonomous organization, on the other. On the basis of empirical findings of a multi-sited ethnography in Germany and Greece, this article conceptualizes that noborder creates a unique space for activists to meet in which people try to work productively through conflicts they see as being produced by a global system of inequalities. This demanding endeavor involves social pressure to self-reflect and to transform interpersonal relationships. Broader society could learn from such experiences to build more inclusive, heterogeneous communities.

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“…In analytically understanding the inequalities reproduced within the noborder movement itself, the discussion on privilege is important for activists (King, 2016, p. 190;Millner, 2011).…”

Section: Privilege and Solidaritymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Approaching Conflicts the Anarchist Way: Prefigurative Politicsmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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The Noborder Movement: Interpersonal Struggle with Political Ideals

Gauditz

2017

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“…Disability refers to an effect or performing agency that emerges when irregular bodies interact with disabling material practices [45]. A case in point is provided by borders as material processes or practices, as bordering practices [7][8][9]. These practices signify and over-determine the work of bordering and its symbolic and material/semiotic implications.…”

Section: Migrant Bodies In Crypts: a Dis/abling Practicementioning

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“…Border practices constitute boundaries of protected identities and perform an institutionalized form of racism, a filter for "undesirable" bodies [9]. Ruben Andersson [46] explains that border guards and migrants are bound together in what has been described as the "border game" or "border spectacle".…”

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Bodies Folded in Migrant Crypts: Dis/Ability and the Material Culture of Border-Crossing

2016

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This article considers media narratives that suggest that hiding in trucks, buses, and other vehicles to cross borders has, in fact, been a common practice in the context of migration to, and within, Europe. We aim to problematize how the tension between the materiality of bordering practices and human migrants generates a dis/abled subject. In this context, dis/ability may be a cause or consequence of migration, both in physical/material (the folding of bodies in the crypt) and cultural/semiotic terms, and may become a barrier to accessing protection, to entering and/or crossing a country, and to performing mobility in general. Dis/ability and migration have not been associated in the literature. We adopt an analytical symmetry between humans and non-humans, in this case between bodies and crypts. By suggesting an infected, ambivalent, and hybrid approach to the human subject, the body-crypt traveling border challenges the essentialist dichotomies between technology and biology, disability and impairment. The articles and reports upon which we rely were collected through extensive searches of databases/archives of online newspapers and news websites.

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