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Border Abolition Now
Borders must be abolished. Borders produce and are produced by carceral, racist, classist, sexist, and xenophobic regimes. Border Abolition Now offers a vision of transformative politics that seeks to dismantle these intersecting systems of oppression.
The contributors argue that what the abolitionist tradition brings to border studies is a way to contextualize the spread of carceral and policing apparatuses across a long historical arc, an understanding that undoing police and carceral regimes requires the fundamental transformation of all existing social institutions; and a political commitment to building new worlds beyond police, prisons and the border regime.
The contributors draw from different locations, disciplines, and struggles, bringing a much-needed bottom-up and global perspective to border abolitionist praxis. Across three sections, the chapters address key issues, such as how abolition theory is being envisioned through feminist decolonial and anticolonial praxis, as well as how lived experiences of borders and organizing against them inform abolition.
The volume also examines the connections between carceral border regimes and other institutions of governance (asylum, reception, camps); how the political theory of abolition is being advanced and challenged by theoretical concerns emerging from border contexts (mobility); and specific conditions of border organizing (detention, climate change).
The contributors argue that what the abolitionist tradition brings to border studies is a way to contextualize the spread of carceral and policing apparatuses across a long historical arc, an understanding that undoing police and carceral regimes requires the fundamental transformation of all existing social institutions; and a political commitment to building new worlds beyond police, prisons and the border regime.
The contributors draw from different locations, disciplines, and struggles, bringing a much-needed bottom-up and global perspective to border abolitionist praxis. Across three sections, the chapters address key issues, such as how abolition theory is being envisioned through feminist decolonial and anticolonial praxis, as well as how lived experiences of borders and organizing against them inform abolition.
The volume also examines the connections between carceral border regimes and other institutions of governance (asylum, reception, camps); how the political theory of abolition is being advanced and challenged by theoretical concerns emerging from border contexts (mobility); and specific conditions of border organizing (detention, climate change).
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272 pages, Paperback
Published July 20, 2024
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August 29, 2024
Abolish the inhumane border industrial complex, end global apartheid! A really important read that centres the stories and abolition work of migrants.
While I was reading this an asylum seeker self-immolated in Dandenong because of Australia’s horrific refugee and border policies. This was after waiting for 12 years to find out if they could remain in Australia. The conditions implemented on people on the move by the global north breed despair and we must find power in mutual aid. This was really highlighted in the final section of the book which I really enjoyed and it bought me some hope for change.
While I was reading this an asylum seeker self-immolated in Dandenong because of Australia’s horrific refugee and border policies. This was after waiting for 12 years to find out if they could remain in Australia. The conditions implemented on people on the move by the global north breed despair and we must find power in mutual aid. This was really highlighted in the final section of the book which I really enjoyed and it bought me some hope for change.
November 28, 2025
2.5
This had interesting chapters. I especially enjoyed the interviews.
It's not a very good introduction though, some things went over my head because I'm not well-versed yet in the language of border abolition. Overall, it's not very accessible in its language and concepts. Maybe worth a re-read once I'm more comfortable with all these concepts.
This had interesting chapters. I especially enjoyed the interviews.
It's not a very good introduction though, some things went over my head because I'm not well-versed yet in the language of border abolition. Overall, it's not very accessible in its language and concepts. Maybe worth a re-read once I'm more comfortable with all these concepts.
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