Against Borders: The Case for Abolition
Author: Gracie Mae Bradley & Luke de Noronha
Publisher: Verso Books
Year of Publication: 2022
Print Length: 192 pages
Genre: Non-Fiction / Essay, Political Science
Topic: Capitalism, Abolition, Activism, Borders, Deportation, Racism, Politics & Power, Legality & Illegality, Racist Policing, Security, Suffering, Immigration System, Movement of People and Ideas, Freedom to Move and to Stay, Mobility & Immobility, Technology & Surveillance
Borders harm all of us: they must be abolished.
Borders divide workers and families, fuel racial division, and reinforce global disparities. They encourage the expansion of technologies of surveillance and control, which impact migrants and citizens both.
Bradley and de Noronha tell what should by now be a simple truth: borders are not only at the edges of national territory, in airports, or at border walls. Borders are everyday and everywhere; they follow people around and get between us, and disrupt our collective safety, freedom and flourishing.
It is a passionate manifesto for border abolition, arguing that we must transform society and our relationships to one another, and build a world in which everyone has the freedom to move and to stay.
“The arguments in this elegant and powerful book are entirely reasonable and pragmatic and yet utterly revolutionary, proposing an abolitionist political imagination and a horizon of liberation.” – Michael Hardt
“A book that invites us to dream of a reconfigured world where the borders between nation states no longer control and define us.” – Stella Dadzie
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Race
2. Gender
3. Capitalism
4. Policing
5. Counter-terror
6. Databases
7. Algorithms
Interlude: Futures (I)
8. Abolition
Interlude: Futures (II)
Notes
Gracie Mae Bradley is a human rights campaigner and policy expert. She wrote Liberty’s Care Don’t Share report, which explores government use of data in implementing the ‘hostile environment’. She is a founding member of the grassroots Against Borders for Children campaign and former Director of civil liberties NGO Liberty. She has written for the Guardian, the Independent, OpenDemocracy, VICE, gal-dem, Labour List, Media Diversified, and Consented Magazine. Her publications include ‘A Portrait of the Colonised’, in EUROTRASH, published in 2016 by Merve Verlag, and ‘From Grenfell to Windrush’ in After Grenfell: Violence, Resistance and Response, published in 2019 by Pluto Press.
Source: https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/authors/bradley-gracie-mae
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Luke de Noronha is an academic and writer working at the Sarah Parker Remond Centre at UCL. He has written widely on the politics of immigration, racism and deportation and has produced a podcast called Deportation Discs. He grew up in Manchester and now lives in London.
Source: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526143990/
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