Border abolitionism: Migrants containment and the genealogies of struggles and [Hardcover]

Building on an abolitionist perspective, this book offers an essential critique of migration and border policies, unsettling the distinction between migrants and citizens. This is the only book that brings together carceral abolitionist debates and critical migration literature. It explores the multiplication of modes of migration confinement and detention in Europe, examining how these are justified in the name of migrants protection. It argues that the collective memory of past struggles has partly informed current solidarity movements in support of migrants. A grounded critique of migration policies involves challenging the idea that migrants rights go to the detriment of citizens. An abolitionist approach to borders entails situating the right to mobility as part of struggle for the commons.GBThis 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.Martina Tazzioli is Reader in Politics and Technology at Goldsmiths, University of London

'Martina Tazziolis book challenges us to connect struggles for the freedom of movement to commoning practices and abolitionist worlding projects.Border abolitionismcalls 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 abolitionismis an intellectually ambitious, creative, and original book, linking critical border, migration, and refugee studies to the contemporary insights of carceral abolitionism. The books refreshingly innovative intervention advances an idea of abolition that extends far beyond the borderlÓ-