Toward Border Abolition

Sinopse

"Border Abolitionism explores the legacies of carceral and penal abolitionism to critically adapt its insights to the study of borders and migration. The contributors interrogate the basic question of the presumed necessity and legitimacy of migration control. By questioning the "commonsense" logics of nation-states' border and immigration enforcement regimes, this volume nurtures, catalyzes, and problematizes existing and incipient movements for the abolition of migration controls. This engagement differs dramatically from the broadly reformist consensus of liberal legal scholars and social scientists. Whereas that consensus fundamentally upholds the premises of the nation-state and its citizen-centric conceptions of justice, this volume foregrounds its inherent exclusions and injustices for migrants, refugees, and others classified as noncitizens and showcases constructive visions that are incipient in the lived practices of people on the move across borders whose actions and priorities reveal the potentialities and necessity for the veritable abolition of borders and immigration regimes. While a minority of "open borders" proponents previously imagined that migration could be liberalized while fundamentally changing nothing else about capitalism and the global political and legal order of territorially defined states, this volume instead embraces a more radically open-ended concept of the human freedom of movement that would ultimately require that everything must be transformed. In short, this volume confirms that border abolitionism entails nothing short of remaking the world"-- Provided by publisher.