No Borders: The Politics of Immigration Control and Resistance
Author: Natasha King
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing & Zed Books
Print Length: 208 pages
Genre: Non-Fiction / Political Science
Topic: Activism, Borders, Immigration Control, Migration, Refugees & Forced Migration, Security, Resistance, Movement of People and Ideas, Freedom to Move and to Stay, Mobility & Immobility
From the streets of Calais to the borders of Melilla, Evros and the United States, the slogan ‘No borders!’ is a thread connecting a multitude of different struggles for the freedom to move and to stay. But what does it mean to make this slogan a reality?
Drawing on the author’s extensive research in Greece and Calais, as well as a decade campaigning for migrant rights, Natasha King explores the different forms of activism that have emerged in the struggle against border controls, and the dilemmas these activists face in translating their principles into practice.
Wide-ranging and interdisciplinary, No Borders constitutes vital reading for anyone interested in how we make radical alternatives to the state a genuine possibility for our times, and raises crucial questions on the nature of resistance.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. What is a no border politics?
2. No border politics in practice: the no borders movement as a spectrum of action
3. The struggle for mobility in Athens
4. The struggle for mobility in Calais
Conclusions: so what is a no border politics?
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Natasha King has been active in campaigning for refugee rights and against border controls for over a decade. She studies Critical Pedagogy, Forced Migration, and Anarchist Studies, and has taught at the University of Nottingham and worked as a caseworker with the British Refugee Council. She is interested in autonomous struggle, how we build, sustain and connect autonomous spaces and communities and how we make them spaces where people can be loving, supportive and brave.
Source: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/author/natasha-king/
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