Abolitionist vistas of the human. Border struggles, migration and freedom of movement

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4525341
AutoresMezzadra (0000-0002-5592-824X, University of Bologna, autor correspondente)
Ano2020
Volume24
Fascículo4
Páginas424-440
Data de publicação2020-05-18
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCitizenship Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1362-1025 • E-ISSN: 1469-3593
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13621025.2020.1755156
OpenAlexW3019283638
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas66
Referências citadas29

We are confronting today in many global borderscapes (including the US/Mexico borderlands and the Mediterranean Sea) a criminalization of humanitarian intervention in support of people in transit. This raises important questions with respect to the critique of the governmental turn of the ‘humanitarian reason’ articulated in recent years by critical border and migration scholars. This article discusses such questions through an engagement with the issue of the ‘human’ inspired by black abolitionist thinkers. It also dwells on the transformations of the maritime border regime in the Mediterranean, emphasizing the relevance of the stubbornness of migrants challenging that regime and examining emerging forms of border activism and the practices of solidarity they embody. A discussion of freedom of movement as a political project concludes the article

Criminalization · Environmental ethics · Human rights · Humanitarian intervention · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Solidarity · Sovereignty · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Sex work and related issues