Vers une politique de la liberté de mouvement

Heller, Charles; Pezzani, Lorenzo; Stierl, Maurice; Saint-Saëns, Isabelle

doi:10.3917/commu.104.0079

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“…These different approaches stem from specific collective identities and organisational structures (Monforte, 2014). Radical organisations may be more prone to engage in autonomous forms of mobilisation as they seek structural change that undermines borders and the nation-state (Heller et al, 2019;Jones, 2019). In contrast, as moderate organisations are contenders in the existing political system, they may engage in representational politics in which they demand rights and recognition from the state without challenging the core mechanisms underpinning border regimes (Fitzgerald and Rodgers, 2000).…”

Section: Multiple Approaches To Human Rights and Their Potential For ...mentioning

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Limited Tools for Emancipation? Human Rights and Border Abolition

Perolini

2023

Sociology

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Human rights often fall short of challenging oppression because they are enmeshed with conservative institutions, such as the law and the state. Despite these shortcomings, grassroots organisations contesting border regimes in Berlin often make use of human rights in their everyday mobilisation. They engage in autonomous forms of mobilisation outside the state and construct non-legal notions of human rights that are emancipatory for racialised migrants. However, these same organisations also address demands to state authorities by using legal notions of human rights. In this article, I draw on the framework focusing on abolition and non-reformist reforms, which have been developed by activists and scholars in their resistance to policing and the Prison-Industrial Complex. I innovatively extend its use to propose a nuanced understanding of grassroots approaches to human rights. Specifically, I argue that these approaches entail the concurrent pursuit of short-term reformist reforms and border abolition.

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Section: Multiple Approaches To Human Rights and Their Potential For ...mentioning

confidence: 99%